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alexseanchai) wrote2014-04-27 11:02 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2014-04-27 11:02 pm
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so apparently 'post six sentences of most recent worked-on story ' is a sunday thing? from topaz119
Fatimah does not veil her face.
She avoids John, when she can. But Nadra her mother can no longer walk easily, and Shula her sister is barely thirteen years of age, and Muhammad her father—Allah rest his soul. Someone must deal with John for the nails her mother needs for the carpentry she does to put food on the table, and Fatimah will not force on her mother or sister a task she herself shrinks from doing. It is easier to be taken seriously by most of the Christians in this village—not easy; her skin is far too brown—if she wears no veil as is the Christian custom for women.
John thinks of this as an invitation.
She avoids John, when she can. But Nadra her mother can no longer walk easily, and Shula her sister is barely thirteen years of age, and Muhammad her father—Allah rest his soul. Someone must deal with John for the nails her mother needs for the carpentry she does to put food on the table, and Fatimah will not force on her mother or sister a task she herself shrinks from doing. It is easier to be taken seriously by most of the Christians in this village—not easy; her skin is far too brown—if she wears no veil as is the Christian custom for women.
John thinks of this as an invitation.