found: “Beirut” by Katie Ford
originally on Blackbird Ruin is a promise we make to each other: I am born the day Saigon falls and Lebanon takes to its own throat a club. On that […]
originally on Blackbird Ruin is a promise we make to each other: I am born the day Saigon falls and Lebanon takes to its own throat a club. On that […]
(originally published in Rattle, #38) INHERITANCE Near Zgharta, Lebanon, 1976 My father at fifteen walked the unguarded streets having learned the cadence of rounds, measuring the distance between safety and crossfire […]