Short fiction #81

“Did you love him more than you did Daddy?” Devi sighed. If only she had burned that letter. And if only her daughter, now almost 45, had not decided to snoop. But Mira was behaving as if she was 14. “He was suave, witty, he could argue wonderfully,” she said, remembering Ali. Their meetings had …

Short Fiction #80

It was a long hard day, and for once he had really felt his age. Cairo's hot sun hadn’t helped, and by the time he was home, it felt as if he had been through a wringer. But all thought of age and pain, disappeared when he entered the parlor and found her there. She …