In 2018, my short story Ustaz Ali won third prize at the prestigious F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival. Today I decided to “pick myself,” as Seth Godin says, cut the gatekeepers, and publish the story on Gumroad. The story is set at a Catholic School in Amman, Jordan, in the late eighties. Two friends, one […]

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