Extremely Lucky
About Mehdi M. Kashani
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.
More Fiction
she—having regained composure—messaged him: Your mother needs to know you are all right and she foolishly expected an immediate response
The morning is still dark and a light fog plagues the highway, which is probably the reason I’m only going 40mph, but it doesn’t matter because no one else is up at this time. As my 40 year-old Fiat chugs…
I remember when I came to visit for the Spring Festival, all those strangers around us, dancing and suffocating me with their sweltering bodies, and the subsequent fever that lasted into my final day.