The Photographer Of Shadwell Basin

The Photographer Of Shadwell Basin

By the time Maya Rahman found the film rolls, her mother had been dead for six months and the flat had already started forgetting her. Smells went first. The coriander and fried onions that used to cling stubbornly to the curtains evaporated. Her mother’s rose attar, the one she dabbed on her wrists before going … Read more

The Wedding Guests Who Never Arrived

The Wedding Guests Who Never Arrived

On the morning of her wedding, Ayesha woke to the sound of her mother arguing with a saucepan. The saucepan was innocent, just sitting on the hob, but her mother’s voice bounced off its metal sides as if it were responsible for everything. “The caterer says he needs final numbers by eleven o’clock,” Ammi was … Read more