Extremely Lucky

This piece is only available in the print issue of Belletrist magazine.

Mehdi M. Kashani lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. Recently, one of his short stories was selected as a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest. His fiction and nonfiction can be found in Passages North, Catapult, The Malahat Review, Portland Review, and carte blanche, among others. He has work forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Walrus, and The Minnesota Review.

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