عُـلا’s Reviews > Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan > Status Update

nevermind, all men are cheaters..

“Let me take her home with me,” Hashim begged them. “I will take her home over my shoulders. My shack is big enough for two. It doesn't mind the dead.” :(

“You are all I ever see,” he whispered to her as he daubed drops of henna on her palms, chanting the verse from Bulleh Shah again and again. “Everywhere I turn I see you.” He sat at the head of the charpoy, rubbing kalonji oil into her eyebrows and hair until her scalp shone, and watched the rain stream through the window. :'(