Stories

'The Divine Pregnancy in a Twelve-Year-Old Woman' won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia. Read more about the…

'Matalasi' won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific. Read more about the Prize here.

'The Boss' was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. View the full shortlist here.

'Night Fishing' was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. View the full shortlist here.

There are many ways to carry the past with us: to romanticise it, to invalidate it, to furnish it with…

It took me a moment to recognise him.  When I did, I was overcome by the shyness of seeing a…

بعد لحظات قليلة ستسمعون صوتاً مدوياً.. إطلاق نار من مكان مرتفع جداً في الفراغ. سيكون الصدى هائلاً. لكنكم ربما معتادون…

In a few moments, you will hear a loud noise like a shot from a high cavernous space. The echo…

نيس محمد زكريا أو أنيس زكريا أو زكّور الأخرس، كلّها مشتقّات لإسمي. إسمي الحقيقي أنيس إلا أن أمي كانت تناديني…

My father called me Anise; my mother added Mohammad. I used to think I looked like the child my mother…

الإهداء إلى الحرفِ المُعلقِ آخر الغيم وسطَ السماء.

Dedicated to the letter hanging at the end of the clouds in the middle of the sky. We are a…

We gather here and feel the weight of the world on our shoulders. It does not feel like we’ve inherited…

I write to tell you that the walls of my bones are made of contention and I am always situated…

I memorised the rhythm of your heart, almost inaudible but I heard you, a beating body inside a body being…

At 11.42 p.m., on 1 November, 2016, Peter Abraham Stanhope sat at his family’s old mahogany dining table and slit…