Download the roughly edited first draft of this collated serial here: Mijwaan by Saaleha Idrees Bamjee
Cover photograph: Dominic Morel
About the Author: saaleha
I am a writer and photographer (look up my work on www.shootcake.com) based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have an MA in Creative Writing from the university currently known as Rhodes. My writing accolades include winning the 2014 Writivism Short Story Prize and the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize for my debut collection, Zikr.
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Amazing 🙂
That was great! I couldn’t stop reading. I’m hungry for the next story now. 😀
Finished – Well done Saal! Great read
I did see one where you missed the word “then”, not sure if that was the one you fixed
Downloaded and I’m pretty pleased with the ending 🙂
Thanks for honouring us with your talented writing skills 🙂
I hope you get to publish it soon 🙂
Awesome story Saaleha. I really enjoyed it, so i had to share:)
Sending you some Link Love
[…] for her brilliance of painting with her words. You can read ‘Mijwaan’ her latest short story or download it here. It’s an intriguing tale touching on traditional marriages, complications […]
I’m half-way through, can’t put it down… have goosebumps. My extremely talented friend.. will comment again when I’m done! Wow
I fixed the one I spotted and re-uploaded. It’s also a slightly smaller file now.
yay
awesome
downloaded and reading it all again
Mind the typos.