Fiction
2003
Women,
you lost big time!
Book: The Da Vinci Code
By Anoosh Ariapour
Zir-e
aavaar-e faaje-eh
Report from Bam
By Hessam Foroozan
L
Short story (Persian)
By Bahram Moradi
Little
black spiders
Short story
By Farid Parsa
Inside
a different city
Five weeks in a refugee camp in Lebanon
By Sina Rahmani
Farah
and Simran
Friendship never dies
By Wazhma Frogh
An inconsequential
man
Short story
By Mammad Aidani
Rue
des Hedayat
Walking into a bookshop in Paris
By Hormoz
The
Persian translation
For me, Iran now has a human face
By Eric Jerpe
Winter
Memories sparkle like icicles hanging from the roof
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Saayeh
beh saayeh
Short story
By Partow Nooriala
Myth
of Creation
Short story
Written by Sadegh Hedayat
Translated and adapted by Ali Sadri
Return
of Shahrzad
Part III
By Eric J. Jerpe
Signs
of life
Recollections from an autumn on the road
By Guive Mirfendereski
Infuriatingly
good
Remembering Kristopher Kolumbus
By Golnar Fozi
The
couple
Love's limits
By Siamak Vossoughi
Return
of Shahrzad
Part II
By Eric J. Jerpe
She
waves back
Two short stories
By Kristopher Kolumbus
The
boy who invaded my life
Part II
By Reza Ordoubadian
There's
more to writing
Reflection on meeting an author
By Zohreh Khazai-Ghahremani
Jashn-e
tavalod
For A. T.
By Hossein Nushazar
Return
of Shahrzad
Part 1
By Eric J. Jerpe
Bahram
Short story
By Azam Nemati
Shiva
Short story
By Moniroo Ravanipour
Count
me out
Keivan's arguments for anti-nationalism
By Dananjay Anandan
Shit!
At the blue cafe
Ah, Love! Could thou and I conspire
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Crawlin'
king snake
Short story
By Shahriar Zahedi
Dear
Sir
A presumptuous note
By Ali Sadri
Hamid
and Harry
Here and there
By Amir Nooriala
A
plea
An Iranian writer in the post 9/11 world remembers Sadegh Hedayat
By Mammad Aidani
Behind
Amjadieh
Chilhood soccer in 4 parts
By Hooshyar F. Naraghi
Fit
to kill
I came across an Iraqi soldier who was sleeping
By Pesare Gol
From
cigarette to cell phone
They are equally annoying
By Jalil Mortazavi
Marg-e
gorbeh
Death of a cat
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
Hell
in heaven
How can humanity survive when help itself is doomed helpless?
By Zohreh Khazai-Ghahremani
First
time
California fires and smoking habits
Written by AF
Photographed by Kambiz Kashani
Virtual
solutions
What is the world
coming to?
By Nikoo
The
white balcony
Francisco had long gone leaving Carmen alone and vunerable
By Kristopher Kolumbus
To
hell and back
Dreams
By Babak Khiavchi
Mehmaankhaaneye
Madame Beaujean
A story of addiction
By Hossein Nushazar
Kaar-e
Engelisaa neest
You must abandon stupidity to be functional again
By H. Utanazad
Visitors
Some of the nicest moments of my life happened in there
By Siamak Vossoughi
I want
to see it
The Persian prick you love to hate still raises a sardonic chuckle
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Dar
jostojooye eshgh
Short story
By Namdar Nasser
Almost
human
Short story
By Ali Sadri
Carlos'
last wish
For Majid
By Farid Parsa
A
plane
It can be an awfully lonely feeling sitting on a plane
By Siamak Vossoughi
The
Book
"It's a book," I said. "Let me keep my goddam
book."
By Siamak Vossoughi
Khaab-e
shaaparak
At a Tehran concert
By Sadaf Kiani
In
a phat sack
You next month
By Madam Bayaz
Paint
green the aphrodisiacs
Short story
By Ali Sadri
If
Ali calls
Short story
By Daniel Zangeneh
A
bridge to nowhere
Painful to watch Hafiz or Rumi turned into soulless, prosaic,
meaningless platitudes
By Fereshteh Davaran
Iran
2-Amrika 1
Short story
By Namdar Nasser
Staying
home
Short story
By Siamak Vossoughi
Chewed
I made phony coughs or started humming songs trying to drown their
whispers
By Shahriar Zahedi
Honeymoon
In Poughkeepsie
Short story
By Ali Sadri
The
sound of words
In words, in literature, we wrapped ourselves and waited
By Roya Hakakian
Praying
to Mahdi
I write my wish on the official slip and let it twirl down
to the bottom of the well. A cool breeze arises and brushes my
cheek
By Kambiz Naficy
If
he were alive
Interview with Ali Akbar Saeedi Sirjani's daughter, Sayeh
By Fariba Amini
Serpent's
dance
Short story
By Ali Sadri
The
morning after
Sadegh Hedayat at the dawn of the atomic age
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
The
snow was heavy this winter
Nearly all of the mules are overburdened
By Kambiz Naficy
Losing
wisdom
A dental moment
By Assal Badrkhani
Two sides
of a gate
Short prison story
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
Letting
everybody play
We will make it happen, no matter how retarded it may look
By Kourosh Taghavi
Proud
love
Lifting the veil over Malik Khanum's life
By Susan Hajiani
Mohsen
Do you really want to die?, the young girl asked.
No, I have come to like my life, was Mohsen's reply.
By Kambiz Naficy
Maajeraay-e
man
They're after me
By Shahin Mir Mohammad Hosseini
Proud
love
Lifting the veil over Malik Khanum's life
By Susan Hajiani
J O D A A E
E
By Derakhshandeh Haghdout (Belgheis)
Source: The Persian Book Review
One
gray Sunday
Short story
By Siamak Vossoughi
Barefoot
and suicidal
Short story
By Golareh Safarian
Javad
First part of a story in progress
By Bijan Tehrani
On
a roll
Spain travel diary
By Azadeh
Delam
khonak shod
Letter to "those mother fuckers"
By Faramarz Oskouie
Blowing
out the candle on both ends
Summer here is unimaginably long with fireworks provided by the
bus driver
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Geeezeesus
Keeerist Mom!
Never thought I could write these words alone in Calpe
By Kristopher Kolumbus
You have
no calls
My bloody Valentine. Weird shit.
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Cherry
on the cake
His body was decorated with fish tattoos always a big plus in
Khayyam's book
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Sahar
keh... sar meezaneh
Story
By Cyrous Moradi
The
cure
Eye contact, smile, Titanic, flowers & perfume
would do it
By Arash Emamzadeh
Khaaneh-ee
keh nardeh haaye zard daasht
The house with the yellow fence
By Sadaf Kiani
The
magic stick
What your involuntary movements may tell about histories that
haunt you
By Madame Bayaz
Kiss
With the gentleness of a freight train
By Assal Badrkhani
Op-pen
dat societeee, bitch
The thinking couch potato's musical
By Alidad Vassigh
Clear
mountain stream at the station
The connoisseur does not miss the opportunity
By Kristopher Kolumbus
From
Abadan to Whittier
Coming to America
By Firoozeh Dumas
Cognac
for two
Short story
By Golareh Safarian
Khoda
Hafez Rumi
Book review: Manouchehr Parvin's Dardedel
By Fereshteh Davaran
Aakhar-e
ta'ziyeh
Short story
By Mahshid Amirshahi
Gloria
on the Mediterranean
She rode a silver Suzuki wrapping her legs around her separated
Apollo
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Begom
Soltan
A true story
By Shahriar Zahedi
Gloria
on the Mediterranean
She rode a silver Suzuki wrapping her legs around her separated
Apollo
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Weeds
My father had plans for grass and cypress trees
By Siamak Vossoughi
Trip
to Qom
Short story
By Azam Nemati
With
amazing grace
On a sunny afternoon in October, memory paid me a powerful visit
By Golareh Safarian
Food & Co.
To my parents, on Mother’s Day
By Parissa Sohie
Out
cruising
You this month
By Madam Bayaz
But
then I touch her hands
This person is unmistakably my mother
By Golnar Fozi
Future
seemed bright
The travelers, Part IV
By Laleh Haghighi
Jassem
Short story
By Abbas Sahraee
Gozaree
az koocheh pas koocheh haaye tehroon
From Shoosh to Molavi, 1960-70
By Arash Zarei
The
boy who believed everything
A fable
By Siamak Vossoughi
Tip
of a pencil
The travelers, Part III
By Laleh Haghighi
The
Caliph of Calpe
Come Ride with Me On the Bus
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Rhetoric
and apples
Oh my God! I can' believe I'm hearing this from my own father
By Golareh Safarian
Man
babr neestam
Excerpt from a novel
From Mohammad
Reza Safdari's highly-acclaimed novel, Man Babr Neestam, Peecheedeh
beh Baalaaye Khod-taakam (I Am Not a Tiger, I Am a Winding Ivy)
Sticking
together
The travelers, Part II
By Laleh Haghighi
Chaay
yaasaman-e sabz
Tea on a snowy day in Washington DC
By Sadaf Kiani
Turning
White
Excerpt from a novel
By Nader Habibi
The
travelers
A long line in our family of perpetual travelers
By Laleh Haghighi
The
sea bird
Short story
By Mokhtar Paki
Rashide
Short story
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
English text
It
hurts
But I hope he pops it in his mouth for Norooz
By Kristopher Kolumbus
In
search of Dali's miracles
Watching Kiarostami may prove there are other alternatives
By Madame Bayaz
I
hear the bus coming
He was born under a different star
By Kristopher Kolumbus
It
was sacred
It is never the same
By Shirin Tabibzadeh
Seven
secret recipes
Memories of baking treats for Norooz
By Banu
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Katarina
Short story
By Hossein Nushazar
Baar-e
ezaafeh
Short story
By Qasem Nosrati
My
name is "Today's Valentine's day"
When she finished talking, a couple of sharp teeth remained
outside her mouth
By Arash Emamzadeh
Ghost
of Isfahan
Remembering the man I've almost forgotten
By Heather-ley Peckham
Valentine's
Day
You could never be lonely when you had a story in you
By Siamak Vossoughi
Discretion
I see every emotion and memory he hides so well
By Assal Badrkhani
Tup-e
Morvari
Full text: The Pearly Cannon
By Sadeq Hedayat
Schimmel
and Stars
Annemarie Schimmel
By Madame Bayaz
Firdowsi
lynched in Granada
The ship's bell rang for Firdowsi in his blue underpants
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Pala & Sten
Short story
By Pooyan Sadeghi
Qesseyeh
maast
Short story
By Namdar Nasser
The
little tyrant in us
Unwritable Story
By Abbas Mehdibeigi
Band-Aids
Short story
By Sanaz Fotouhi
The
Race
Short story
By Siamak Vossoughi
Washed
over Roman ruins
Firdowsi bought me a three-dollar chop choy from the bargin
menu
By Kristopher Kolumbus
In Color
You this month
By Madam Bayaz
Seh
revaayat
On death of writers
By Majid Roshangar
Death
of a philosopher
Story
By Bahram Dean
Kafka
va Internet
Getting the message out
By Hossein Nushazar
Not
just the wounds
They robbed my son of his spirit, of his soul
By Banafsheh Dastyari
Fruition
All is love
By Torang Asadi |
