Religion
I sat in cool bathwater listening as outside my mother and father tore out my lush green plants like weeds—roots clinging to the soil I’d…
Restaurants around Cairo prepared for the feast of Eid ul-Fitr. The traffic was bumper to bumper from Zamalek to Maadi. Donkey and camel carts were…
[Oprah, do you remember when you rescued the child from his life of raising sheep? when you snatched his overalls and ceased his convulsions on…
At the poet’s eulogy, a speaker says Larry came to him in a dream—recognizable stubble, salted hair, those piercing eyes—and gave him the perfect definition…
“May I help you?” “Yes,” the Dalai Lama yelled into the intercom, “give me a medium hazelnut coffee with extra cream and three Splendas.” “Would…
The snow sifted down Halloween night. The cars in the lot below became frosted cakes. We had booted around a hacky-sack all summer and into…