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<em>from</em> The Cave

from The Cave

“The old will die, and the young will forget.” CHARACTERS: BONNIE: Mom. American woman. JAMIL: Dad. Middle Eastern man. DEMA: Daughter. Half. Thirteen years old. NOOR: Daughter. Half. Ten years old. GAIL: Next-door neighbor. MARK: Gail’s husband. ACTOR: A man, a prophet. Supernatural, unrelenting, paranormal, transcendent, and psychic. Note: / indicates an overlap with the …

My mother’s village and my father’s village

My mother’s village and my father’s village

My mother’s village is about an hour’s drive south from Beirut. The route starts on the coast, the sea to the right, vast, blue, and sparkling in the sun. Beyond the army checkpoint in Sidon, smaller roads east and farther south wind through busy villages lined by short concrete buildings with storefronts on the ground …

Frango

Frango

I It was three days after Christmas when I came home from work and found the gift bag leaning up against my door. “Love, Aunt Gloria,” read the card in her spidery cursive script, the kind that stymied children. I pulled a tin of cheap mint chocolates from the bag. Frango was stamped in bloodred …

The Last Animal to Arrive in the Kingdom

The Last Animal to Arrive in the Kingdom

title taken from Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem I walked like a rage into the body of my life, which insisted the end of grief camein the fulfillment of desire, but desire, like loneliness, is a hunger    it willcome back       I muzzled grief            I desired with a desire beyond desireI repeated the word until it grew …

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