Rojda Alak – Elephant Laughter

Guest: Rojda Alak
Title of The Work: Elephant Laughter
Original Title: Fil Kahkahası
Genre: Story

“I wonder if he’s hurt.”

“There’s only one way to find out. Go and ask.”

“No, it doesn’t really matter. Never mind.”

Behind every sentence that begins with “in fact” there is a truth, Esma had realized this two years ago. Immediately after they made love, Ahmet was engrossed in the elephant patterns on the picnic and said “actually”. “You’re exactly the woman I’ve been looking for,” he continued, slowly shifting his gaze from where he was to Esma. It was at that moment that Esma’s mind was enlightened like a keyhole in the suffocation of the repetitions of “Why, why, why”. She searched for the key moment of the past four years with Ahmet in their last conversation through elephant patterns. Devamını Oku…

Metin Abay – Viewpoint

Guest: Metin Abay
Title of The Work: Viewpoint
Original Title: Görüş Açısı
Genre: Prose Writing

What does one run away from, what does one fear?

What have I been running from all this time? What have I been afraid of? What can’t I explain even to myself? What is necessary for the liberation of my soul and mind? Under one question, there are dozens of question marks. What am I supposed to do? Surely there is a way out of here. What is it that you can’t even tell yourself, what are the fears, what are the fears, what are you running away from? If you find this out, your soul will be relieved, but you don’t know where to start, do you? Devamını Oku…