All That I Want to Forget by Bothayna Al-Essa

All That I Want to Forget by Bothayna Al-Essa

Author:Bothayna Al-Essa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00


Fatima:

I have an hour before the internet is turned off.

This is the last thing I’ll write to you today.

Here in cell block No. 13 the guards have started to notice something different about me, something I failed to attend to. Did I tell you about the guards before? About the poem patrol? About the campaign to send the poem to the gallows, about the regime’s mercenaries?

I am hounded by questions. They swarm around me, float over my head like a turban of smoke. Where there is smoke there is fire, says the patrol, certain of the sin before it has been committed: what are you waiting for and why do your eyes shine like that? What is it about your walk that has changed? Why are you standing up so straight, why are you flushed?

Happiness is suspect.



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