Excerpt from my new graphic/novel in the works:
Halabiabad, South of Tehran, Circa 1979-80…….
“Hey, wanna hit the ball a bit?” he said after cautiously approaching
me. He said it like a professional footballer, like the ones we see on
TV interviewed after a match.
He
had a “toop pelastiky do-layeh” (a soccer ball made out of two balls,
one is torn and the other is embedded inside the other–street soccer
ball) tucked under his arm.
I
gladly accepted because the smell of infection was overpowering in the
double decker bus and I much preferred the sewer smell outside….
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