The Mother Part At the Free Palestine march, Anil saw the sign first: If you are anything like my mother, Agnes Kimber, who says that Palestinians are animals, then you are my enemy too. We couldn’t see who was holding it. They were up at the front. They wanted everyone to know. “How about […]
Siamak Vossoughi
SIAMAK VOUSSOUGHI is a writer living in Seattle. They have had some stories published in Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Bennington Review, Columbia Journal, West Branch, Gulf Coast, and MAYDAY. Their first collection, Better Than War, received a 2014 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and their second collection, A Sense of the Whole, received the 2019 Orison Fiction Prize.
The Mother Part
Cowards
by Siamak Vossoughi
It seemed like it was always Matt Eastman fighting somebody or Matt Ladreau fighting somebody or the two of them fighting each other.
The Friend Seekers
by Siamak Vossoughi
This story was nominated for The Best of the Net. The boy and the girl were watching the father working in the backyard. It was Saturday afternoon and the sky was gray in a way that seemed like Saturday afternoon was always going to be gray from here on out. The girl was to go […]
