Neeka’s Backlog

I keep running into stuff I wrote a while ago – typed and printed out; typed and stored on the computer; handwritten in notebooks and on napkins; in English and in Russian; finished and unfinished; never published and never sold. Random fact and random fiction, some of it keeps surprising me when I re-read it …

Siblings

Amna (eldest daughter) and Arif (youngest of the children, a boy) get along well enough together, if you keep the knives, forks and any other sharp or dangerous objects firmly locked up and out of their reach. They’re all on their Christmas holidays at the moment and apparently their mother sat them down and got …