The Solitude of a Ladybug
Published in The Massachusetts Review, Volume 63, Issue 3 @2022 Artwork by Franco Matticchio, Internazionale 1243 @2018 The first thing I do every morning is […]
Translations
Summer ’84 Published in Strange Horizons
The Three-Twenty-Seven train from Tehran to Andimeshk left the station at 11.45 in the morning of July fifth, 1984, with my father in compartment number […]
Birthday of Reza Deldar-Nik
I was going through one of those precocious pains of kidney stone expulsion when one struggles to sit still on the chair. I had taken […]
The Book of Tehran
Title: The Book of Tehran: A City in Short Fiction Edited by Fereshteh Ahmadi Published by Comma Press, 2019 Featuring Atoosa Afshin-Navid, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Kourosh Asadi, Azardokht Bahrami,Hamed Habibi, Mohammad Hosseini, Amir-Hossein […]
Hazeover, or Toothbrush Wrong Time
Addiction doesn’t disappear, it only changes forms. I was hooked on idleness, but now I’m hooked on work. I was hooked on weed, now I […]
Someone Without Peers
I have a friend who I see once in a while, and whenever we meet, we talk about our favourite books. Next time, we will […]
Made in Denmark
We lived in a house of closed doors. The door to the veranda was closed. The third room’s door was closed. The bifolding doors to […]