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Weekly Contest #99
At 5:20 a.m, an obnoxiously loud alarm blares next to Leila Durrani’s head. In the universal language of teenagers across the world, she hits snooze and burrows back into her slumber but soon admits defeat, crawls out of bed, and skulks to the bathroom. Ten minutes later, she has finished fajr prayers and leaves the comfortable temperature of her bedroom, the cold from her air conditioner still trapped within. A month ago, she found her mother out here on the terrace of their apartment, still in her scarf, whispering prayers. Since then, the...
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