Tuesday, July 16, 2019

From Behind the Vent

Sometimes on the street a woman would pass and you'd hear something from behind the vent in her burqa. Sometimes it was light and flirtatious, sometimes a little darker.

"I was a teacher of Persian," one of them said once from behind her vent. "This is like a death."

- From The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

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