Out of Mesopotamia
by Salar Abdoh
Oct 09, 2020
2 minutes
Illustration by Pedro Gomes
Several barefoot Iraqi kids played in the mud, and in the distance the sound of big guns rumbled like an earthquake in successive waves that made one imagine beasts lurking beneath that earth.
The woman came out of her hut, unsmiling but gracious. Somebody had reported that a month earlier she’d cut the heads off two dead enemy combatants.
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