How We Disappeared

It was her scream which kept me up. The sound of it spoke of everything no one dared to talk about: what the soldiers were doing; young and afraid and separated from their families. It spoke of the things everyone was to keep silent about all through the three and a half years we belonged to the Japanese, and of the decades after.

A historical fiction set around the Japanese occupation, depicting the horrors women forced into sexual slavery had to go through. It's cruel enough what they endured during the war, but to suffer from scars and discrimination after is even more heartbreaking.