“The Devil’s Waiting List”—a story by Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi
A solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to get ahead.
A solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to get ahead.
In this flash fiction translated from Arabic, a woman poet finds herself at first thwarted by her possessive husband, then overshadowed when he decides to compete with her.