Tomas Grasso

• A girl from Dubrovnik was shot dead by a sniper on one bridge and her body lay stretched  out on sarajevo's scummy shallow river.
• There is a war
• It was the first victim
• Snipers hiding in the Holiday Inn.
• The narrator and the mother gasped when the girl fell and called the aunt in panic.
• They are afraid
• An explosion shook the city some days ago. 
• There was smoke in the north of the city.
• People are in huddles
• Her friend is leaving town.
• There is a very strong storm.
• There is a bombing on the bar. 
• They are driven out of the city in a police car, by a police woman, friend of her mother.
• They are staying as refugees.
• The aunt had been found injured.
• Her spine cracked in 3 parts.
• She died
• They move to the Grandmother's house in a small Herzegovinian village.

People looked around, confused.

People screamed, the ground agitated, everyone ran in various directions.

On that special day.

Leaving behind a noisy explosion.

Two days after the city was surrounded