Fiction
Sample of published fictions
Ayna
If she could not find plastic bags to tie around her wrists and wrap over her palms, she would have to sleep with her hands dangling off the bed, avoiding the duvet cover at all costs, and that would mean a night of fretful sleep, inevitable smudges of brown paste on the lilac sheets and a missed alarm.
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New Medicine
It was a quick procedure. Quick enough for the men to fit it into a lunch break or the gap between a ten o’clock meeting and a gym session. Nazneen would usher the men, one at a time, into her office from the waiting room with its television screen stuck on ESPN. Some wore suits, some wore jeans. All chewed on the gummies from the glass jars next to the Keurig.
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The Woman Who Was Everything
There once was a woman who was a flashlight. That’s right, a flashlight. A sturdy hunk of a thing, neon yellow, filled with four AA rechargeable batteries, and a loop at the back end for slinging through a carabiner and onto a belt.
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The Husband
On the morning of her fiftieth birthday, Bibi woke to the sound of her husband chewing loudly next to her in bed. Neither of them knew it was Bibi’s birthday, born as she was without a birth certificate, but it was to be a special day anyway because for the first time since their wedding, they would be receiving guests.
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Salma Bai’s Story
Nur sported a pixie cut the first time she appeared. Salma Bai didn’t have any friends with hair that could not be oiled and woven into a thick, shiny, buttocks-skimming braid. But there was Nur, brown-skinned, with delicate features and short hair. She loitered in the back corner of the greengrocers wearing a burgundy dress; a hemp bag hung empty off her slender, caramel wrist.
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