The Coin

by Yasmin Zaher

No, I couldn’t buy a TV, I was scared of American culture. When I say that, I don’t mean the right to bear arms, I mean wedding dresses and obesity.

I come from a land that is a graveyard. For millennia, all kinds of people were born there, they died there, or were killed, and some were even resurrected or reborn. It was bloody, haunted, and doomed, but it belonged to mankind. Nature in America was uncivilized and untamed. I didn’t know how to read it.