Thurayya al-Baqsami's collection of short stories Rahil an-nawafiz (The Windows' Flight) arose as the next act of embracing the dramatic events of Kuwait's recent history, through the memory and conscience of the writer. The collection was published in 1994 and contains 10 short stories. All of them deal with the subject of war: aggression, occupation, the resistance movement, the drama of the individual and the whole of society. These stories, on the whole short or even very short, portray the image of one or two characters against the backcloth of selected events and episodes from the life of the occupied country.

The first short story from this collection, entitled Qalbuha al-akhdar (Her Green Heart) tells about a woman who is looking after a wounded man who is much younger than she is. It is melancholic and reflective in mood, while the cruelty of war is moved to a further plane in the face of the moods that result from the joint presence of individuals who fate connects because of the war. Forty-year-old unmarried Suad devotedly nurses a young soldier who dreams of getting better to be able to return to the battlefield. The intimacy of their being together and care gives rise in Suad to feelings of caring, as well as to others that are not: