Sadya Hamid Siddiqui’s debut short-story collection Scar Tissue & Other Stories (working title), which she wrote between 2013 and 2016, is with the Jacaranda Literary Agency in search of a badass publishing home. Sadya is based in Karachi, Pakistan and can be found on X @maverika.
If you had known Murtaza, surely you would have thought of him as someone with a resilient disposition. There was integrity too; as I tell you his story you might even detect self-respect.