It was clear to me now that I was on a hospital bed, suspended in a coma that teetered between life and death.
Siavash Saadlou
Off the Circuit
Until Our Mouths Hurt
by Aida Moradi Ahani, translated from the Persian by Siavash Saadlou
This is a family photo, with a note on the back that says, Autumn of 1986. The two sitting over on the blanket are my mom and dad, and the two chortling girls of kindergarten age chasing each other on the lawn behind them are me and my sister. Once again, they’d taken us […]