Rachel Aoun

Short fiction “The bystander”
On a sunny day in Beirut, basketball coach Roger sets off to work, proudly carrying a box of chocolates to celebrate the birth of his child with colleagues. On the way, he watches a gruesome violent assault against a defenceless person but does not intervene. The news of the incident quickly spread through all the news channels so that the coach’s colleagues and students talk about little else while congratulating him on his newborn.