Nuri had just swallowed a little orange pill dry, when she noticed that the portrait of ‘The Sexual Revolutionary’ had been taken down from the wall of her childhood bedroom.
I woke up with the taste of blood in my mouth
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 20 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: August
An evening storytelling and writing around the "chimera that is memory", organized by Sister Library and Sehri Tales.
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 29 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Curtains
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 21 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Drinks with a Ghost
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 9 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Little
Besides the brilliantly unconventional addition of an Intelligence Agent as the main audience, the story’s language, unflinchingly charged with a humorous tone, is enough to keep a reader’s eyes glued to the screen.
Zahir uses crows as a symbol of magic realism, as found in local folklore, where animals serve as omens of luck both good and bad. The crows seem to bring bad luck to the couple, and wherever they go, the birds follow.
A story about a pickpocket
