afghangirlscifi

Science fiction stories chronicling Afghan women and girls.

Thursday, July 22, 2004

MARKETSTALL

I'm the polite little girl helping her mother at Saturday market.  You western kids roll your eyes.  Bor-ring.  Saturday is for computer games.  Well we don't own one, so I have time.
Fascinating people here.  Take the next vendor, a man, always playing with that silly cell phone.  Now there's a dozen holes in his zinc roof.  Not one flake of paint on his house.  Daughter is in my class, needs medicine she ain't getting.  And him showing off?
I know, you call me sexist, trashing men.  Ok, here goes, next to him is a woman vendor.  Now here's what she does .... 

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