His Own Birth
Her moan dragged me into the place. I was so fatigued. Working a new system had sucked the last lively drop out of our veins, but my mistrust of the …
Baraka Sakin
Nassir al-Sayeid al-Nour is a Sudanese critic, translator and author.
His Own Birth
Her moan dragged me into the place. I was so fatigued. Working a new system had sucked the last lively drop out of our veins, but my mistrust of the …
Nothing at All!
She picked up the teacups and the biscuit crumbs, and everything fell to the ground, and they all lay down with everything on the same floor. In the meantime, the …
A Scar!
On the occasion of February 6th and the opposition to female circumcision in many African and Arab countries. I promised my mother to visit her once a year—I didn’t visit …
A Certainty
Lean on a wall of bewilderment, do not inhale or exhale it with breaths of fear, send it into the deepest interior. The way out passes through a loud scream; …
My Grandmother
I usually get drunk on a hidden street in our old village, a forgotten and unknown street that no one has passed through for a long time. It is the …
The Story of X: The Story Writer
X the story writer squatted as a child expecting a slap for a mistake he made as he read an ad in the newspaper that a company had launched a …
An Equatorial Seduction
There in the salon of my memory, I had peace of mind, calmly sitting waiting for a lover for whom I dressed with full makeup and perfumes. I had bought …
A Lorry of Dust
Just when the lorry stopped in front of the desert cafe, a barren miserable woman appeared from an unknown place. A pathetic expression was engraved on her face toward the …
Diary of a Corpse Swollen with Life
After the soldier’s body thrown next to the petrol station swelled, his small diary began to descend as trying to escape the corpse. A writer was passing by in his car, …
Obatit’s Ploys
“What’s the shame of being Ethiopian?” She whispered to herself. Suddenly, a year ago when she fled to Sudan, she discovered that Ethiopian denotes a derogatory, painful word among Sudanese …