New Short Fiction: ‘A Funeral of Butterflies’
“Do words and laughter melt, the way images melt in memory?” Short fiction about life and death by Sudanese author Mona Mohamed Saleh.
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New Short Fiction: ‘Evil in My Bag’
In Aya Chalabee’s “Evil in My Bag,” a girl comes of age while Iraq is under US occupation and has to contend with a changing landscape, a strange soldier, and a gigantic crow.
Three Short Stories by Omar Hammash
Today, we share three short-short stories from Gaza, by author Omar Hammash.
New Writing from Gaza: ‘Murky Vision, Bloodied Trees’
“The sentence’s shortfall is a wound that requires a crutch to prop it up, an absence in need of a wall brought tumbling down by the continuous bombing in Gaza, and countless buildings writhing from the cries.”
Valentine’s Day, During the Time of the War on Gaza
This work, by contributor Eman Al-Natour, imagines a Valentine’s Day hope: “Gaza will prosper, and will become beautiful again, with its houses, its gardens, its streets, and the hearts of its good people.”
New Short Fiction from Bahrain: ‘Vinegar on Oil’
In this story from Bahrain, by author Hasna’a Ibrahim, a woman’s struggles with an oil stain on her dress reveal, in glimpses, her relations with her family and the oceans of pain that lie beneath the surface of her life.
From Zahran Alqasmi’s ‘Honey Hunger’
Editor’s note: There are two redemptive keystones in the life of our protagonist, Azzan, during the course of Honey Hunger, a novel published today by AUC Press’s Hoopoe Fiction imprint. […]
‘The Noose Boy’: Short Fiction by Rawaa Sonbol
Four of Rawaa Sonbol’s short stories were included in the recent wide-ranging collection of contemporary Syrian literature, Aftershocks, edited by Alia Malek and published by McSweeney’s last December. All four […]
New Short Fiction: ‘You Know Nothing of Love, Dumbass’
You Know Nothing of Love, Dumbass By Kareem Mohsen Translated by Mandy McClure We sat side by side in the restaurant. I made sure our knees were touching to create […]