The Twenty Second Vision (3 August, 2025)
set in Vale, Seychelles Prayer 4: As a Vaishnavite Hindu, Praying from Vale, Seychelles Om Namo Bhagavate Vaasudevaya Om Namo…
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(22): 19th July, 2025
set in Andijan, Uzbekistan 19 July 2025 The morning plov steams, Father smells the sauté of the lamb and the…
10 July, 2025: How Strangers Help Each Other
set in Nakhchivan, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan Father happened to be standing at the window of the second storey of…
The Twenty First Vision (22 June, 2025)
Set in Kumbum Monastery, Qinghai, The People’s Republic of China Prayer 3: As a Gelug Tibetan Buddhist, Praying from Kumbum…
9 June, 2025: Why They No Longer Walk Together
set in Esztergom, Hungary It was just an idea: that the two of them, Mother and Father, ought to go…
(21): 23rd May, 2025 set in Busan, South Korea
23 May 2025 Father is by himself, resting on a bench after an attempt at a morning jog. His eyes…
4 May, 2025: Burn Marks
set in Brno, Czechia Mother sits by herself to pray every day, and today there is a thought that annoys…
The Twentieth Vision (23 April, 2025)
Prayer 2: As a Jew, Praying from Haifa, Israel Adonai, I lie down in peace, and I will wake up…
12 April, 2025: Expectations around Qurutob
set in Dushanbe, Tajikistan It wasn’t that Father was a particularly big fan of qurutob or that he wanted to…
23 March, 2025: An Attempt at Jogging
set in Bandung, Indonesia “Follow me. Keep up. This isn’t a walking contest. You can’t run anymore?” “Bisa,” Father says,…
(20): 2nd March, 2025 set in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates
2 March 2025 They are almost done with clearing out the room that his mother used to sleep in….
25 February, 2025: A Pilgrimage
set in Luxor, Egypt I am leaving the Luxor temple, and I know I ought to be appreciating the sites…
The Nineteenth Vision (20th February, 2025)
Prayer 1: As a Roman Catholic, Praying from Cebu City, Visayas, the Philippines Oh heavenly Father, dear heavenly Father, I…
7 February, 2025: Returning Home
set in Törmänen, Finland They are leaving. The car is packed up, and there are plenty of dried fish snacks…
3 February, 2025: The Police Came and I Thought
set in Djibouti City, Djibouti I was just looking outside of my hostel, at the vibrant mosque in front of…
2 February, 2025: He Said It
set in West End Village, Anguila, The United Kingdom Father is standing with his younger brother, Smith, in the graveyard…
22 January, 2025: To Be A Villager Today
set in Shan Ywar Thit, Myanmar Mother was the only one not wearing thanaka, or the only one continuing to…
9 January, 2025: Liberation
Set in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India If the smog were not covering the sky, perhaps the scenes around the ghat…
(19) 8th January, 2025
Set in Krakow, Poland 8 January 2025 Father looks at his mother, lying on the bed they gave her in…
29 December, 2024: The Nightmare
Set in Fairbanks, Alaska, The United States of America The weather is cold it’s like Mother is in the middle…
24 December, 2024: The Christmas Tree is Tilting A Bit
Set in Hamburg, Germany ,Don’t break the Christmas tree,” Father shouts from the bottom of the ladder to his big…
22 November, 2024: The Power of a Rose
set in Osh, Kyrgyzstan Mother looks at the roses growing in the bushes in the garden outside of their apartment…
(18) 16 November, 2024
20 March 1988 Jean didn’t know Kigali well. He was visiting only because his brother Emmanuel had moved there. Currently…
19 October, 2024: Three Little Birds
set in Saint George’s, Grenada Mother is with her best friends, Mary and Tonya, out at the sports bar. It’s…
1 October, 2024: Bathing Her For the First Time
set in Pristina, Kosovo His mother, or Giyshi Kuleta, has already been seated under the shower. This is their bathroom,…
28 September, 2024: My Husband’s Rest
It is five in the morning. The only light comes from outside of the windows. Their apartment is right by…
(17) 27th September, 2024 set in Malabo, Equitorial Guinea
8 September 1984 The hospital was a giant white compound resembling a prison right in the centre of Malabo city….
9 September, 2024: He Was Going to Fail this Patient
Tomorrow was going to be the day that Father would retire, and yet he was meeting a patient today that…
28 August, 2024: When His Only Friend at Work Found Out
set in Libreville, Gabon It wasn’t that Father was planning to announce that he was ready to retire so quickly….
16 August, 2024: A Conversation, Part Three
Set in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia “Sayang, saya harus berbicara sama kamu.” “Baik. But don’t say, ‘I must speak with…
The Sixteenth Vision (5 August, 2024)
Set in Lalibela, Ethiopia You are a queen. This is what Mother hears, as she is encompassed in spectral light….
22 July, 2024 et in Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Father is at the hospital and a mother is dying – not Father’s mother but a mother who is a…
(16): 16th July, 2024 set between Pnohm Penh, Cambodia and Preah Dak, Cambodia
16 July, 2024 What was it that Father had done, and was it really a mistake? Looking back on his…
5 July, 2024: The Message in the Rain
set in Salalah, Oman The monsoon had started a month ago, but it was because Mother was out walking with…
The Fifteenth Vision (20th July, 2024)
This is a story I thought I was telling for a thousand years. Or so I thought. Or maybe I…
(15): 17th, May, 2024 set in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, France
« It has come to this time, and you know it. » « She is still young. She looks this way,…
1 May, 2024: The First of May set in Tartu, Estonia
It is Kevadpüha. It is the first day of spring, a day of great festivity and warmth for the Estonian…
The Fourteenth Vision (12 April, 2024)
Set in Manalkadu, Sri Lanka Mother is in the middle of a circle. It is a circle drawn by a…
2 April, 2024: L’anniversaire le plus joyeux set in Conakry, Guinea
«Bonsoir, ma tante. » «Bonsoir, Tina » Mother said to her niece, all the while thinking, What are you doing…
(14): 12th March, 2024 set in São Tomé, São Tomé and Principe
Eu não posso acreditar que a minha mae tivesse estado comigo para dois meses, Father reflects to himself as he chews…
8 March, 2024: The Plaque set in Arijejen, Nauru
When Father was called into the office of the Republic of Nauru Hospital, he had no idea he was being…
The Thirteenth Vision (21 February, 2024)
This is the real world. This is the world that Mother knows. She is inside her home. It is a…
12 February, 2024: An Interrupted Salah
Mother is bending down on her prayer mat on the floor of her kitchen, listening to the call to prayer…
20 January 2024: A Good Man’s Birthday
There’s a house at the bottom of the cliffs. It’s in one of the settlements down under the hills of…
19 December, 2023: The Christmas Market set in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Father looks at the Christmas bulbs in a market in Shimla’s centre, the Ridge. There is Christ Church and there…
3 December, 2023: The Word of God set in Bamenda, Cameroon
It is a beautiful day with not a single cloud blocking the blueness of the sky or the greenness of…
The Twelfth Vision (3 December, 2023) set in Kharkhorin, Mongolia
The rocks, the hills, and the endless plains around. Snow crusts against the crags from here until the end of…
(12): 19 November, 2023 set in Meymand, Iran
It is snowing, far too cold for anyone to go outside. Therefore, the entire family, from Father’s brothers and their…
17 November, 2023: Voices of Representation set in Adré, Chad
The RSF found me in my home. I was not outside trying to buy food in the middle of the…
The Eleventh Vision (27 October, 2023 set in Aousserd, Western Sahara
There are sands all over, and there is a beautiful horse. The undulating sand is a coarse red. It is…
7 November, 2023: Not Friend, Just Patient
Set in Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China As Father was coming into the room, the patient sat up to…
15 October, 2023: A Bullet Could Have Killed Her
Mother sees her ever so precious niece in the hospital bed struggling to open her eyes and she wants to…
25th September, 2023
Set between Casablanca and Chefchaouen, Morocco When Father thinks about the topic, his lips start to bloat, like he is…
17 September, 2023: The State of Things set in Mare D Albert, Mauritiu
If things had been the way they normally were, Mother would have stopped by the old purohit and chatted with…
4 September, 2023: The Barking set in Charleston, South Carolina, The United States of America
Mother was in one of those taxis taking her from the Walgreens back to her home, and she didn’t know…
29 August, 2023: When the Pastor was Kidnapped set in Bouar, the Central African Republic
When Mother found out that the pastor had been taken by armed militia, she was at her friend Marie’s house,…
The Tenth Vision (12 August, 2023)
Set in Sandoy, Faroe Islands, the Kingdom of Denmark This is not the sea. This is not the ocean. This…
(10): 29th July, 2023 set in Teseney, Eritrea
20 May 1939 The first time Faven fell sick, it was in the spring of the late 1930s, when she…
14 July, 2023: Meeting on the Hills
This time Father chose to gather the doctors not at his home in his swanky upscale apartment in San Benito,…
1 July, 2023: Vicent: Set In Valencia, Spain
Mother last saw her nephew, Vicent, in the month of March during the festival of Las Fallas. As was tradition…
Set In Tehran, Iran
3 February, 2023: The First Meeting Of The Doctors Father was glad he knew at least three other doctors who…
The Immaculate Conception: Set In Macossa, Mozambique
The women, men, and children are seated as the pastor reads out his sermon to all within the walls of…