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´My whole body was trembling with fear. I put myself together quickly, stood on my feet again and came back to the city as fast as I could. I didn´t look back lest the armed men thought I intended to get out of the city. I run as far as my breath could allow and was out of energy. When I reached the beginning of the bridge, I tripped over a piece of stone and fell to the ground. At that time, I realized how helpless I was, I punched the ground with my fist and cursed everything I knew. I raised my dusty and tearful face to clean it up, when a piece of a newspaper, curling on the ground drew my attention... I cleaned my eyes to read the bold title better: THE CITY IN CODE RED ...´ Until the idea of COMA came into my mind in 2010, it took a year to summarize and write. COMA is the first and longest story I´ve ever written thus far. Kindly translated by Ashkan Homapour.

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Badiei, Behnoud
Behnoud Badiei, born in July 1988 Isfahan, Iran has a bachelors degree in industrial management and currently works as a manager at a food production factory. He became interested in writing from the age of ten and wrote short stories for children."Writing is still my most important interest, and I never look at it as a job."

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