A series of interviews between a young, clean-cut journalist and an alternative, independent pichal pairi turns into an unexpected romance. But their relationship is tested when the entire world around them shuts down.
Usman T. Malik
Fiction and Excerpts [3]
City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat
#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi
City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat
In this spell-binding tale, a Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a nesting doll of interlocked stories about a trickster and a hidden city ruled by the Queen of Red Midnight.
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
“The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” by Usman T. Malik is a fantasy novella about a disenchanted young Pakistani professor who grew up and lives in the United States, but is haunted by the magical, mystical tales his grandfather told him of a princess and a Jinn who lived in Lahore when the grandfather was a boy.
This novella was acquired and edited for Tor.com by consulting editor Ellen Datlow.
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