Nowruz to the Sound of Explosions and Death

A Report from Tehran Morning of day seventeen, Grandmother and S had gone shopping near Shohada Square. They had just come home when we heard a loud shaking sound and whistling fill the house. A series of explosions shook everything; we could feel the blasts. We stood frozen in front of the windows. A few minutes later the bombing came again, but from further away. My hands went numb. This had happened to me many times after explosions, my hea