This short story is a guest post from Noor Latif, a talented eighth-grader! My mother and I pulled up to the school building. Sleepily, I stepped...
An exiled neanderthal girl encounters the aftermath of a battle between her own people and a band of modern humans, and is faced with a terrible...
The following is an excerpt from UZ Short Story Collection by Umm Zakiyyah: To anyone else, today was an ordinary day, even if a bit dreary....
When Donald Trump tries to impress a secretary and is exposed to aloo gobi and black pepper, what follows could mean the end of the world.
At the party she stood near the front door, as if she might attempt escape. No one talked to her, though she saw plenty of glances...
She’s wilder than he expected. A little nutty, in fact. Like this thing now, traipsing around in the freezing mud of the delta, amid the reeds...
It was pure happenstance that Payedar Olan was sitting near the entrance of the masjid on the day the gunman entered and shot him. He had...
It was all over the news. The earthquake had wiped out whole towns. The entire country was in shock. Upcoming festivals were cancelled and citywide donation...
A fist crashed into Ghada Aziz’s eye, snapping her head back and turning her legs to straw. Pain exploded in her face and she wondered if...
This is part 5 in a multipart series. You can find Part #1 here, Part #2 here, Part #3 here, and Part #4 here Hassan had been fortunate enough to...