A very short story by
Awatef Mahjoub
Translated from the Arabic by
Hikmet Elhadj

– “If I see you reading the newspapers, I will hit you!”.
Insults became my daily supplement, and my mistreatment was his pleasure. He was poor in character and rich in pockets. My mother married me, and she thought that I had trampled on heaven with my feet, and she did not know that she had...