The thrumming of the oud’s strings warmed his chest as he sat outside the garden wall and played a doulab.
If it was willed that she was gone, it was also willed that the sun still rose, to the song of birds, and that he could smell good, strong coffee.
Farley Wright is the anonymous author of numerous critically overlooked unwritten works. His eponymous anthology ‘Unknown’ is currently out of print on e-devices but readily available on vellum scrolls or clay tablets.
Loved this piece and especially loved the bio!
I’m so looking forward to my clay tablet Farley – postage ?
Lovely story BTW very memorable image
Thank you Paul. Re postage: to avoid breakage, our delivery process is indirect and greatly delayed. Once your name and transaction details are impressed into the wet tablet, it will be fired and then buried on your behalf in a suitably obscure location, in line with ‘clay tablet best practice’.
Archaeologists may some day read both the story and your name and scholars will discuss both our existence and the cultural significance of coffee. Prepare yourself to be remembered through an artifact displayed in some future museum of ancient culture!