Three by Atiq Rahimi by Atiq Rahimi

Author:Atiq Rahimi [Rahimi, Atiq]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59051-631-7
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2013-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

I only know I’m in the carpet because of its smell. I can’t see a thing. Just blackness. I can’t breathe. I can’t move.

“Tell him to keep still …”

I make out the sound of the trafficker’s voice over the monotonous thrum of the engine.

“Brother, keep still,” I hear a woman say. “We’re coming up to a checkpoint.”

I hold in my breath and my fear under the weight of the two bodies that sit on top of the carpet.

My head spins in the red-and-black labyrinth of the carpet.

As usual he sits with his hands laced across his bloated stomach, a look of complete indifference on his face.

“Hello, Father!”

No, I will not call him Father.

“Hello.”

“Hello.”

What next?

“So, what brings you here, then?”

Hiding his contempt with a laugh.

“You left your mother, your sister, and your brother behind to come and visit me?”

His arrogant sneer brings back the memory of the last thing I said to him before he walked out on us with his second wife in tow—a phrase that unfortunately escapes my mind as two people shift about on the carpet wrapped around me. The car comes to a halt. I leave my father with his disdain, his fat stomach, and his second wife. The back door of the car opens.

“Where are you going?” booms a voice.

The voice of the trafficker replies to the soldier: “Moosa-e-Logar.”

“Who are these people?”

“My two wives.”

I can feel the bayonet of a gun poking the carpet.

“Where are you taking this carpet?”

“It’s a wedding present for my brother.”

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