#fes
3 stories
The Athan at Dawn | أذان الفجر
Anastasia Chrome•4 min read
The muezzin's voice wakes the city. The woman who hears it wakes to something else—desire for the man who calls the prayer.
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دَرْسُ المُثَنَّى | The Lesson of the Dual Form
Anastasia Chrome•6 min read
Twin sisters in Fes teach a visiting merchant the dual form in Arabic, using their own pairing to demonstrate grammatical duality.
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The Judge's Secret of Fes | سِرُّ القاضي في فاس
Anastasia Chrome•8 min read
In the ancient medina of Fes, a righteous judge's widow discovers passion with the young scholar who comes to study her late husband's manuscripts.
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