Under the bright atrium light of the food court between our buildings, I told Fati about the kiss. In Arabic. This was no time to make my cousin practice English.
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“Stranger Things” first appeared in 805Lit+Art (Volume 4, Issue 2), April 2018, and was also honoured as one of their three annual Pushcart Prize fiction nominations. Enjoy!
Tag: middle east
The Eastern Emirates Charity Ball is the most important night of Pranav’s year. Moments from now, a hundred of the Gulf’s wealthiest westerners will descend on the ballroom of the Arabia Grande Hotel. The fact that he turns thirty today—his tenth birthday on foreign soil—should be the last thing on his mind, considering. ……………….
“Stitched” first appeared in Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College (Issue 4), 2018.
Makeup, morals, and men… in the Kingdom. Check out “Women Wear for Love,” a short piece now out in Pithead Chapel (Vol 5, Issue 7). Here’s a teaser! It’s twilight in the parking lot of the Al-Ghosaibi Mall, and in the back of her father’s car, my cousin is making me a woman. Tonight is our last training with you.…