Mohaddesa Alarakhia

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“Leaving home” by Mohaddesa Alarakhia

Submitted to Contest #68

It had been twenty four years since she'd last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. She could still recall the stooping figure of her mother's waist in their backyard garden caught there like a piece of sheep's wool. Despite being tired and weary from a long flight from California, she felt a surge of energy within her. All her childhood memories came flooding back. She was back home. Nothing seemed to have changed. The bright rays of the Arabian sun stung her eyes as she rang the same old rusty doorbell. Tears welled up in her ey...

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