is the author of Existential Labyrinths, Last Tondero in Paris, The Penguin and The Bird and other novels. His short fiction has appeared in The Sultan's Seal (Cairo), Peony Magazine, Rang Yan Review, Ozymandeus, and other journals.
Marcus asked the group to picture their mind as an empty hill. Amy imagined her brain as a pillowy surface. No ridges carved by habitual thought. This morphed into a pockmarked block of cheese. Then to cheese trailed with mould. Then mould topped with her sister’s memoir which their mother referred to as the ‘bible of your sister’s money-making lies’.
