Shereen Akhtar
Bio
Shereen is a writer and poet based in London. She has had work published in Ambit Magazine, Wasafiri, The Masters Review, Magma and Palette Poetry amongst others. She received a London Writers Award. Her debut collection is out next year.
Stories (13/0)
Absurdité Emotionelle
In France it’s as if life is an insult. A series of domestic, pedestrian psychic injuries. You take a parent to Paris when you receive your scholarship offer, without having yet learned to converse. You get off at the wrong metro station and can’t read a map. You walk past a brasserie window, too posh and expensive for you, and you’re fairly sure you wouldn’t be seated. Oh putain – you are in the capital of all sorts of intersecting love, but it is the banality of your hotel WiFi switching on which allows you to emerge. You brush your teeth in the bathroom mirror and stare at a nascent wrinkle that you scrutinise as though you are learning to reflect Yoda.
By Shereen Akhtar2 years ago in Fiction