fiction, Star Literature

FICTION / Residence

I plead but I know there is nothing I can do. Akbar, in a rare fit of courage, tries to intervene. But the old man does not budge. Maybe he knows about Mina and me.

FLASH FICTION / The exiled daughter

Is it true that when we migrate, we lose a few people from our past?

FICTION / Hair cream

The mosque committee was quite displeased with Rashed, their young muezzin.

FICTION / At home

This is the first time I let you in, but you’ve already made yourself at home. You are bumbling around in my kitchen, as though you have been making me tea for a lifetime.

FICTION / The loss of essentiality

Umar stood in line with all the patience in the world. He could smell the anxiety and fear in the air. The room was filled with people once glorifying death and taking pride in solitude, now filled with panic in the face of reality.

FICTION / Animality

TRIGGER WARNING: animal brutality

September 14, 2024
September 14, 2024

Residence

I plead but I know there is nothing I can do. Akbar, in a rare fit of courage, tries to intervene. But the old man does not budge. Maybe he knows about Mina and me.

June 22, 2024
June 22, 2024

The exiled daughter

Is it true that when we migrate, we lose a few people from our past?

May 18, 2024
May 18, 2024

Hair cream

The mosque committee was quite displeased with Rashed, their young muezzin.

March 30, 2024
March 30, 2024

At home

This is the first time I let you in, but you’ve already made yourself at home. You are bumbling around in my kitchen, as though you have been making me tea for a lifetime.

March 16, 2024
March 16, 2024

The loss of essentiality

Umar stood in line with all the patience in the world. He could smell the anxiety and fear in the air. The room was filled with people once glorifying death and taking pride in solitude, now filled with panic in the face of reality.

March 2, 2024
March 2, 2024

Animality

TRIGGER WARNING: animal brutality