Hena Tayeb


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    How to Catch a Rat by 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…

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    The Accident by Hena Tayeb

    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…

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    Attention Seeker by Hena Tayeb

    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…

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    Anne by Hena Tayeb

    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…

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    Fallen World by Hena Tayeb

    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…

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