Frail as a Flickering Mirage

Wednesday at last. They met face to face after an eternity of waiting. It began six months ago, at one of many chat websites, in a private chat room, where she bared her soul before him. It did not occur to her that she would get so lost, that she would so stray, that her path would so spiral driving her to ever more recklessly optimistic alleys . Only when her eyes fell upon him could she breathe again. She plunged into his arms without hesitation, as if she had known him always. The first time she saw him she recognized him instantly. His eyes, his smile…he was real after all, not a fantasy but a warm, tender man just as his gentle name Atif suggests. He kissed her trembling hands. He kissed her neck. She became the liquid on his lips. She reddened and ripened before his eyes. Slowly, sweetly, agonizingly, he set free her moist body from the imprisonment of her clothes. Her scent was deliciously released like a fruit whose last peel has just fallen to the ground. He lustily swallowed up her feminine nectar. Read More »

Anyone Out There?

(This article was first published in Jordan’s Living Well magazine)

One day this teacher walked into the classroom with an unusually somber look that I shall never forget. As I discovered in due course, he had intentionally put on that deeply solemn face because he wanted to tell us a cautionary tale, one that required special dramatic effects.

The teacher, whose name I shall withhold, began his Oscar-winning performance by telling us that his next-door neighbor died a week before. Miraculously, however, he told us that she was given another shot at life and that he just had a chat with her in the staircase of their building where he accidentally bumped into her. He asked her what she witnessed in her brief afterlife encounter and she told him that she saw many women hanging by their long hair which was tied to ceiling rails made of hell fire. This was, she revealed to our mesmerized, almost tearing teacher, their punishment for not covering their hair while they were alive. Read More »