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I was sleeping so deeply when the phone rang that I barely registered what she said, that she’d left him that she was sorry it was 2 am that she was on a payphone in a petrol station somewhere …

My lover had another brother. Twirling my hair around his finger, he laughs when he tells me before there was hair on his body he almost aced a poker game. But the soldiers had busted in, bund…

Mahmoud went to bed when he was four. It was two years since he had been out of bed. When I crouched by his bed with my arms folded on the mattress, he didn’t return my smile, just blinked his…