But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.
At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause to watch the splendid disc set the brine aflame and then douse itself in it's own fiery broth.
Another general would have let them go and been glad of it. But he saw that if they secured that high ground they might regroup and come at us again, this time with their archers positioned to advanta...
All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers’ licenses they’d acquired overseas. Many
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is...
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us wou...
This is Islamic dress—but not to them. According to them, the colors in the embroidery are haram. Where
There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. —Heinrich Heine
The angels enter not into a house where there is a dog or a likeness’—are those not the words of our Prophet?
Swirling a glass of ice splashed with Scotch, the host seemed oblivious to the contradiction between what he’d just finished saying and what he was now showing me. After his second drink, he began to...
Strip by strip the lash carved into Grace's shuddering flesh. My tears were falling by then, heavy drops, joining in the leaf dust with the blood that had begun to trickle from the table. My limbs wer...
Somehow, the telling of all this rinsed my mind clean and left me able to think clearly once more. By gathering and sorting my own feelings so, I was finally able to fashion a scale on which I could w...
So, you are happy to be a pigeon?Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense of the other creatures that dwell in the desert.
So it is, out here on this island, where we dwell with our faces to the sea and our backs to the wilderness. Like Adam’s family after the fall, we all have things to do.
She’d been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since.
She would have had to keep her headscarf on, never laugh, never smile—if she smiles at a man he will think, ‘Ah, she loves me,’ Mohamed explained. As
She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
She closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them and gazed at me. 'I wonder if you know how you have changed. It is the one good, perhaps, to come out of this terrible year. Oh, the spark was cle...
Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich peca...