Ahmed Saadawi

She wanted to challenge her patron saint on the promises he had given her, but she waited for night to fall because during the day the picture was just a picture, inanimate and completely still, but at night a portal opened between her world and the other world, and the Lord came down, embodied in the image of the saint, to talk through him to Elishva, the poor sheep who had been abandoned by the rest of the flock and had almost fallen into the abyss of faithless perdition.

It was always fun with Hadi because he didn’t deny himself when it came to pleasure

It had been hard to separate Nahem’s flesh from that of the horse