Hena Tayeb

It all started with a missing potato chip, a hole in my sock and the cereal spilling out of the bottom of the box when I picked it up. My suspicion soon turned into certainty, I had a rat! Beh…

Left, right, left, right; the car swayed from one side to another. ‘Damn this is one twisted road’ he thought as he zig zagged along the straight wide highway. Other cars honked and passed him…

I lay on a mattress at the foot of my parent’s bed. I couldn’t sleep because of the pain in my right foot, specifically in my little pinky toe. I told my dad who came to my aid; he kissed it b…

Bound with a red
and white plaid cloth,
a diary admired
through the shop window,
a present on turning thirteen.
Thoughts of boys, family
and friends fill the early pages,
but things c…

An air conditioned room,
the blistering heat
locked out. The room is full
of people, a sober man immaculately
dressed, a woman scantily clad,
a procurer, a few among the many
filling…