you are prepared for all of it. how the blood will smell. of you. of lavender. of the crown of a head.

The better half of her four decades of life were marked by the ebbs and flows of relapse and remission, either sick, or about to be. Remission is life with an asterisk; conditional.

He was nice to my father and his siblings. But still…

A new novel, written just before the Arab Spring, tells the story of a hacker turned revolutionary.