New Short Fiction: ‘Our Offering,’ by Amgad ElSabban
“Magdy’s gaze fell by accident on a tiny ad written in fine print in the bottom corner of one of the pages of a local newspaper.”
ALQ: The Strange
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“They say this city was once beautiful.”
Lock-in Literature: Zakaria Tamer’s ‘The Flower’
“There was a skinny roughened hand buried in the dirt. It yearned for sun and rain, for the blue sky and the wind, and for years it crept slowly upward.”