Omnialienation - Short Story (PDF and Epub ebook formats)

"Omnialienation" is a devastating short story about war veterans confronting their complicity in past genocides while watching new atrocities unfold in Gaza. Trapped in a sterile nursing home, these aging soldiers dissect their roles in colonial violence—from Algeria to Tasmania—only to recognise the same patterns replaying in real time on their muted television screen. Their fractured confessions reveal how perpetrators become spectators, and how historical amnesia enables contemporary horrors.

With surgical precision, Omnialienation exposes the machinery of moral detachment that links past and present atrocities. As news footage of Gaza's devastation flickers silently in the background, their reactions—from cold justification to mute horror—show how easily genocide becomes routine. A harrowing meditation on guilt, complicity and the cowardice of survival, this story asks what it means to bear witness when the world has learned nothing. (Ideal for readers of Kafka’s existential dread and Solzhenitsyn’s moral weight, distilled into 10 unforgettable pages.)