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.