Competition Twenty-Eight Winning Flash Fiction: Cassettes and Cigarette Smoke
Cairo, 1984. Ashraf leaned against the dusty wall of a record shop on Talaat Harb Street, Walkman headphones around his neck, the low hum of Fairuz barely audible. His backpack bulged with bootleg cassettes—Umm Kulthum, Boney M, and, tucked behind the rest, Pink Floyd’s The Wall. A man in a frayed suit stopped […]
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