Dead: A Ghost Story by Mina Khan

Author:Mina Khan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: multicultural, ghost, immigrant, womans fiction, asainamerican

Nasreen watches as Matin slips in through the door separating the office from their living quarters. He sits down at the kitchen table. Maria sets down sandwiches for both of them.

“What, no rice? I like rice.”

Maria shrugs carelessly.

“It’s too hot,” she says. “I didn’t feel like cooking.” That earns her a glare. She looks away. “Ay, Papi! Don’t sulk. I’ll cook rice tonight.”

Matin turns to his sandwich, taking large bites and chewing noisily. He doesn’t talk and his eyes stay on his food as if it would escape if he looks away. Nasreen gets up and walks back to look out the window, glad she no longer has to sit with him, ready to refill his glass and bring him the salt or whatever it is he might want.

“So when is your wife coming back?” Maria asks.

“She’s not,” he says. “I told you she left me.”

Maria laughs, a short cynical snort.

“They always come back,” she says. “Mousy women like that don’t know where to go, what to do.”

Nasreen looks over her shoulder at Maria. Her anger flares up and disappears just as quick. That wasn’t far from the truth. Forget coming back, she hadn’t been able to leave. Now she wished she’d learned to drive, but Matin had refused to teach her. In the village she’d walked everywhere or taken a rickshaw. The one year spent in New York she’d enjoyed riding around in the subway, jostling and swaying, just one of the crowd. Now she wished she had flirted with one of the customers and run away. Maria was wrong. If she’d left, she would never have come back. If she’d left….

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