One Story, Thirty Stories
An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature
Edited by Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi

Contents

Poetry
Sedika Mojadidi - “Marriage to Azim”
Masood Kamandy - “Time Passes in Colorado”
Donia Gobar - “As I Watch”
Mariam Ghani - “Notes on the Disappeared”
Nahid Fattahi - “Pick Me, Please!”
Jessamyn Ansary - “age three, at grandpa’s funeral” “Invention”
Qais Arsala - “Horns of the Tiger” “Demystified Calamity” “Placebo”
Sahar Muradi - “Of my Mother” “Exile or My Father’s Elbow”
Khalida Sethi - “Astagfurillah (God Forbid!)”
Ariana Delawari - “Oh la Lo” “Cheshme Siah Daree”
Zohra Saed - “Neptune Avenue” “Family Album”
Naheed Elyasi - “Awaiting my Return”
Yalda Asmatey - “My Thoughts, If You Don’t Mind”
Amanullah Mojadidi - “What Can One Say About Living in Kabul?”
Wajma Ahmady * “What? You Never . . .”

Fiction
Mir Tamim Ansary - “Dreaming in Dari”
Wali Shaaker - “Identity Card”
Farhad Azad - “The Broken Window” “An Old Garden”
Donia Gobar - “Aya”
Naheed Elyasi - “Living on a Prayer”
Nushin Arbabzadah - “Like a Rabbit Caught in the Spotlight”
Wajma Ahmady - “My Earliest Memories”

Essays
Maliha Zulfacar - “Coming to America, 1966”
Amanullah Mojadidi - “Home”
Yasmine Delawari - “The Girl with the Green Eyes”
Abubakr Asadulla - “Survival of the American Dream”
Khalida Sethi - “My Mother”
Rameen Javid Moshref - “The Odyssey of Coming to America” “Who the Hell is the Foreigner?!”
Sahar Muradi - “The Things They Wait For”
Nadia Maiwandi - “The Enemy”
Zohra Saed - “A Week Later”
Fahim Anwar - “Stand-Up Comedy”
Tareq Mirza - “Journey to Afghanistan, September 2002”
Ariana Delawari -“A Penny”
Homira Nassery - “Voting in Afghanistan”
Halima Kazem - “Afghan Awakening”
Waheeda Samady - “The Cab Driver’s Daughter”
Bismillah Iqbal - “Hope Street”
Afifa Yusufi - “Daughter of the Imam: from Kandahar to Queens”
Mariam Ebrat Ali - “The Critic”
Farhad Ahad - “An Afghan American Perspective” “Memories of Kabul’s Playing Fields”
Awista Ayub - “You Proved Me Wrong”

Blogs
Masood Kamandy - “Dispatch from Kabul”
Gazelle Samizay - “Gazelle Speaks”