S.A. Chakraborty

Jamshid and Muntadhir and then laughed. “Now that’s an interesting—”

In what world do men and women pay the same price for passion

to the past that inspired me, the present that embraced me, and the future we’ll build together

FOR MY PARENTS, WHO WORKED SO HARD TO

MAKE SURE THEIR CHILDREN COULD DREAM,

AND WHO WERE ALWAYS THERE, NO MATTER

HOW LONG AND FAR MY WANDERINGS

That made it worse, this passing of a barbed baton between women who, no matter how clever, how powerful, would always be known by the men to whom they were attached.

“Find your happiness, little thief. Steal it and do not ever let it go.”