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Leila Sadeghi
Iranian
Story Writer, Editor and Translator
(Photo:
Masoud)
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Research:
Literature
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I (They) get even with them (me)
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Short Story
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Leila
Sadeghi: "(I)
(They) get even with them"
(Short
Story)
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There drops a milk stain on the carpet in my room. I clean it up with my finger, but it has left a hollow on the carpet pile.
Next morning, I notice a dark spot next to me. Little and large ants have gathered around something. Dispersing them with the spine of a book, I find it to be the same stain dried up.
A while later and the stain turns black again. I blow onto it. Some of the ants keep themselves aloof, some hurry away, and some others hold on to the stain firm. I decide to eradicate them so they no longer come back to the stain.
Any time a group showed up; half were crushed, a quarter lamed, and the rest ran away. There was no end to the ants dying.
As I wake up, I see another group of ants around the invisible stain and even around those sank dead into the pile. I wonder if it’s them or me retaliating. Sure, they’d one day circle around me and t a k e m e a w a y i o t a b y i o t a.
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From
"Make Me Time to Pass" book; translated to English by Hamed Abdi
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