A new story translated by Katharine Halls published by https://rustedradishes.com/
Red the full story here: My Sister – Rusted Radishes
“I saw the shaykh gesture to his helper, who handed him the cane, then in a flash he brought the cane down hard on my sister’s shoulder. My brother and her husband and I all jumped, but my sister didn’t even flinch. The shaykh continued to the next section, ready for her to repeat after him.
Suddenly, my sister chirped, “Tell me baby, who’s my lover?” The shaykh muttered a prayer to ward off evil then repeated the verses he’d just read, but she kept singing. Tell me baby, who’s my lover? Tell me baby, who’s my lover?
The cane cleft the air in two, striking her on the shoulder and thigh. He was taking care not to come near her face. She took the first four or five blows without pausing for breath, then leapt to her feet, and the deep, savage voice thundered out of her once again as she began to caper wildly around the room. I stood up quickly, placing myself between the shaykh and my sister, but the helper pulled me away and out of the path of the cane, which whistled through the air and landed with a crack on my sister’s body, and then again and again and again. I looked speechlessly at my brother-in-law, willing him to do something.
“It’s for her own good,” he said uncertainly. “We have to get that son of a bitch out!”
I wrenched my arm out of the assistant’s grasp and shoved him away, then grabbed hold of the shaykh’s arm to stop him from beating my sister. He looked straight at me, and as I gazed back, I saw that his eyes were red, blazing flames of hellfire that feasted on people, on women, who he would gladly see burned and tormented for the most insignificant of reasons.
The helper hustled my brother-in-law and me out of the room. I tried to slip past him and get back to my sister, but my brother-in-law clutched me firmly by the arm.
“That’s enough!” he yelled. “Your father agreed to it. And I’m her husband. This is my house, and my word goes!”
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