The Day the Fire Went Cold is a heartbreaking story set in rural Eswatini about a fourteen-year-old orphan, Luyanda, whose only family is his struggling grandmother. When she dies, he is left completely alone in a world that does not notice his pain.
With no parents, no relatives willing to help, and no place to belong, Luyanda is forced to fight hunger, loneliness, and silent suffering by himself.
This powerful and emotional short story explores poverty, abandonment, and the quiet battles many children fight behind closed doors.
Sometimes the world does not end with noise — sometimes it ends in silence.
— Siboniso BoyBoy Dlamini
