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Short Stories
“The Jihad of Agha-ye-Rahimi” tells the story of a male university student intent on harassing his female American teacher during the Iranian Revolution. This story was originally published online in the Del Sol Review. This story is the seed of my novel, The Jihad of Angela Weston. The short story was also designated among the “Best of the Web” and appeared in eScene.
You can read “The Jihad of Agha-ye-Rahimi” in Del Sol Review.
In “Baseball Cards,” an elderly man with dementia rants about his life as he now experiences it in a senior living facility with his wife. “Baseball Cards” placed in the top fifteen of 1400 stories and poems about the end of life in a contest sponsored by Dying Matters Coalition. It was published in England in an anthology, final chapters: writings about the end of life. All royalties from this publication go to the National Council of Palliative Care.
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In “Charmed,” Arun, an Indian man who works in a tourist hotel in Shakawati, wants to get ahead in life by learning English and living in America. It is only when he decides to present a gift to a couple from Louisiana that he learns something far more important than a new language. The story received honorable mention in the Tiferet Journal Writing Contest. “Charmed” was published in the Bellevue Literary Review’s theme-based edition on memory.
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