For her skilful embroidery work, the refugee camp charity gave her money to support her sisters still in Syria.

Her most beautiful dress yet, this one Yara imagined wearing after she reached Europe.

The man promising her safe sea passage smiled as he folded her battered banknote into his pocket.

Since he was published in the Atlanta Review and his short screenplay ‘Pigs in Muck’ featured in the Lockdown Monologue Film Festival recently, Peter Gaskell is currently aiming to show how he values economy of language and so has taken to writing haiku and flash fiction where every word must be used to maximum effect