The man focus of this paper is to highlight and investigate the power of narrative and discursive practices to normalise violence implicated within socio-spatial organisations and configurations. However, the concern is not only to expose the intermingling forces and relations of power that afflict and often regulate such configurations, but to look at the interstices formed by counter-narratives of social agents. In light of the problematic posed by modern biopolitical strategies and increased techniques of fear and violence within the context of cities in conflict, the question of city narratives and the implications of discursive power and agency become pressing. This paper focuses on the necessity to revise city narratives taking into account the dangers of institutionalised discursive representations and articulations of power and violence that seek to anaesthetise social practice (that is change-oriented), hinder it, or normalise its defeat. The main focus will therefore tackle counter-narratives within a transgerenic scope of investigation. I specifically look into socio-spatial formations as attributes to and sometimes dictates of socio-spatial practices of the everyday, while at the same time accentuates of conditions of possibility of resistance. In such a manner, my contribution seeks to veer away from implications of reductionism inherent in an outlook centred on strict binary oppositions (in the formation of knowledge pertinent to power and power structures) and determinism. By broadening the scope across multiple narrative genres, this paper seeks to explore the agentive articulations of power that create alterity, difference, and change. The point is to liberate our narratives, whether of revolutionary or liberatory work, or even that of resistant and subversive social praxis, beyond such binaries as defeat/victory. I specifically look at counter-narratives formed around and out of the last few years in Beirut, to highlight such a necessity to reconsider the way we look at, see, and read cities, especially those in conflict or subsumed under the weight of constant violence and fear.