Stories

A jailed conscript finds a novel with its pages torn out, and spends a lifetime searching for the ending of an Indian rebel's story.

A boy waits for breakfast and a box of Dutch cheese — then Quneitra falls before he can taste it, and the loss stays with him for life.

A man meets, at a scientific conference in Beirut, the schoolmate he never noticed — and discovers that love can arrive late.

A short story about a moment of reflection before a decision never made.