Contents

Fate Unites and Divides

Don’t Close a Door God Has Opened

You Tell Me the Story

At the Mission

That’s Me in the Picture

The Hot Pepper

I’m a String and He’s a Wall

Date Pits between the Toes

My Brother in God’s Book

We’re All Looking for a Lost Key

A Steed of Wind

Misjudged Good Folks

In with Sassi, Out with Asgawa

A Horse, a Carriage, and a Disappearance

Descended from Diggers of Underground Canals

Oh, My Aching Heart!

The Maharisiti

Tuffaha’s Street

Dakakin Hamid

Clove Girl

The Jard and the Birth Certificate

The Burn

Good Evening, Good Morning

The Homecoming

Rose Petals

Water from Heaven

Aida Belongs to Jaballah, and Tawida Belongs to Salem

Hidden Destinies

He Sneezes and Coughs!

Love’s Wine

The Sin

The Platform

The Market

The Fatal Omission

Neither Muhammad nor Ali

A Piece of You Is outside of You

Pleading

Standing on the Outside, Kneeling on the Inside

The Cloak and the Dervish

Tracking the Spirit of the One You Love

The Cat’s in the Bag

Miftah Daqiq

Take Refuge in the Distance

The Grudge

Don’t Knock on a Door You’ve Got the Key To

The Virtue of Truth, the Vice of Silence

There’s More to a Person Than Meets the Eye