ayda Shadkam

Brutal friends

Whenever I was free, from the roof of our house I used to watch him walk in the garden. A seven- or eight-year-old boy who, until he realised that someone was looking at him stealthily, began to say vile words, "Get out of there", or "I'll kill you in there." He lived alone in the garden with his grandfather. A brazen brutal old man who repeatedly yelled at everyone, including the boy.