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SELF DEFENCE
A haunting literary novella about hunger, silence, and the mercy that kills in beautiful words.
In the ruins of a forgotten land, a father and daughter wait beside a fence that divides the living from the abandoned.
Beyond it stand white trucks with red symbols of mercy. They carry food, water, and medicine.
Inside the stillness, hope flickers like a candle fighting the wind. The people wait. The world watches.
Written in prose as spare as dust and as haunting as prayer, SELF DEFENCE is a minimalist meditation on hunger, hope, and the moral blindness of comfort.
It asks what happens when survival becomes a crime, and when compassion is claimed by power.
For readers
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
This is not a story of war.
It is a story of waiting.
Of silence mistaken for peace.
Of the human cost hidden behind beautiful words.
In the ruins of a forgotten land, a father and daughter wait beside a fence that divides the living from the abandoned.
Beyond it stand white trucks with red symbols of mercy. They carry food, water, and medicine.
Inside the stillness, hope flickers like a candle fighting the wind. The people wait. The world watches.
Written in prose as spare as dust and as haunting as prayer, SELF DEFENCE is a minimalist meditation on hunger, hope, and the moral blindness of comfort.
It asks what happens when survival becomes a crime, and when compassion is claimed by power.
For readers
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
This is not a story of war.
It is a story of waiting.
Of silence mistaken for peace.
Of the human cost hidden behind beautiful words.
98 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 8, 2025
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8 people want to read
About the author
Dilaware Khan
11 books2 followersDilaware Khan writes stories that live in silence, the kind that lingers in empty rooms and unanswered questions. His work explores the minds of people standing at the edge of sanity, of faith, of meaning. With quiet intensity, he captures the inner storms of those who cannot conform to the noise of the world.
Blending philosophy, emotion, and lyric minimalism, Khan’s fiction examines how language shapes truth, how memory resists erasure, and how conscience survives under control.
His prose is meditative yet sharp, driven by moral inquiry and the haunting beauty of thought. Khan’s writing does not offer comfort; it invites reflection. His characters do not seek escape, they seek understanding.
For readers drawn to the quiet rebellion of the human mind, his stories are not simply read, they are experienced.
Blending philosophy, emotion, and lyric minimalism, Khan’s fiction examines how language shapes truth, how memory resists erasure, and how conscience survives under control.
His prose is meditative yet sharp, driven by moral inquiry and the haunting beauty of thought. Khan’s writing does not offer comfort; it invites reflection. His characters do not seek escape, they seek understanding.
For readers drawn to the quiet rebellion of the human mind, his stories are not simply read, they are experienced.
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