Every evening, as the sun disappeared behind the endless stretch of desert, an uneasy silence settled over the small village. Children hurried indoors, lamps were dimmed, and every family checked their doors more than once before going to bed. It wasn’t an old superstition that kept them awake at night. Two fierce demons roamed the Read more…

There once lived a poor barber and his wife in a small village where hunger was an everyday visitor. Some houses welcomed it quietly. This one did not. The barber’s wife spoke of it constantly—how little there was to eat, how empty the vessels felt by nightfall, how different life had been in her father’s Read more…