Artwork by Manzel Bowman It was almost the same everyday. Wake up. In the dark she folds her blanket, places it in the center, then rolls up the mattress, hoists it to her shoulder and […]
Category: {Short Stories}
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Artwork by Hanadi Alqurashi She barely hides her smile as she unfastens her earrings. Reaching for the lights she lets the end of her toub slide across the floor, a tease for him though he […]
Ramadan Amreeky
Kitchen :Haven of the Bitchy Outbursts: Delicately she slices the two cloves of garlic into thin oval shapes. Scraping them aside on the cutting board she takes the wet parsley shaking it vigorously, loving the […]
I Gots Ta have Him!
Avoiding the stark beauty of you I lower my gaze. Walking into this Technicolor commotion of firehot candy, toub wearing transitionally young ladies, these porcelain beauties: painted eyes, angled brows, listless skin, spun silk, cherry […]
She be a HouseWife/ Tongue-Biting Heroines
Typical how the scene unfolds. A pretty young girl, twenty three with a degree, top graduate from the University of Khartoum, far from a silly twit, soft-spoken, strong values, intelligent eyes, a future set with […]
Auditory Sensation
I looked into the eyes of my beloved, and I was set free. Feeling the crisp crunch of gravel under my feet I stop to admire the gathering encompassed in tacky lights and excited murmurings from […]
Re{Joy}ce
This is my gift to you daughter; you shall suffer as I’ve suffered, bear it well. Part I Mist hung within the house, infused with the smell of sandaliya, bakhoor, sighs of the dignified with […]
Sana 7ilwa ya Gameel
All this love and aggravation… Jose Cuervo Absolut Skyy Black Velvet 1800 X-Rated Jack Daniels VOX Crown Royal Smirnoff I’ve wasted so much of my life…Walking the aisle she scopes the vast choices of bottles […]
Obliged
It was a Good Day. She chanted this as she startlingly got up to curse the all nighter she pulled as she squints at the glaring 10:20. Grumbling at whatever force that pulled the strings in […]
{Pre}Revelation of You
Try #1 I never knew a… Was there anytime when this woman never laughed? Or didn’t have a contagious silly grin favor her face? After the initial shock from standing outside in sweltering heat only to […]
Revelation of You
(I) Revelation of you What a sight. Stepping out of the shower she hurriedly wraps a towel around her body. Briskly she unscrews a bottle to pour lotion into her hands. Sitting on the edge […]
Honeysuckle Breath
Honeysuckle breath on my neck, I grab hold what I can. Watch the pretty designs of my feet on the dusty marbled floor before Muna comes with the moogshasha to sweep it all away, watch diamonds […]
Childhood
Renting out the old place and buying something new. Plans shoved in my face, enlarged halls, more room, a better view, easier access and honestly, that house is just too old fashioned. That old place […]
Moment Usage
It just feels so right. I would like to sing with my body, a beautiful melody I would sing for this moment. I should not be mistaken for that girl with stars in her […]
Stages of Content
(I) Looking up I catch the gaze, not a second too late and it would’ve been too late because it would’ve been missed…the fleeting gaze.‘The’ Gaze. I latch onto it, not wavering one bit, take […]
One Look
It always started with one look. It was unlike any other look that she saw from him. The first time she saw it was during the middle of an argument. It hadn’t quite reached the […]
You Own Me
She had self-reliance to her step, coat charmingly sliding onto the back of her chair as she takes the position of the, chic, unattainable, unreachable, unavoidable, that one with the strong, once you get a […]
Dreams of Zaloot
A tapestry of sorts, the night unfolded in all it’s modest glory as each individual went about. The youngest, with her ever secluded ways closeted in her bedroom, clutches to her man made fiction, reading […]
Dry Season
As if wanting to burst out of a womb his wizened eyes serenely watch the horizon, a birth he has witnessed as far back as to when he sat on his fathers lap, to him […]
Piercing Rebel
… and with abandon she throws back her head to scream. Rolling my neck side to side, the crack that I long to hear evades me, so I grimly stare down at the china tea […]
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