ALL PERSIANS ARE LIARS and lying is a sin. That’s what the kids in Mrs. Miller’s class think, but I’m the only Persian they’ve ever met, so I don’t know where they got that idea. My dad says it isn’t. Persians aren’t liars. They’re poets, which is worse. Poets don’t even know when they’re lying. They’re just trying to remember their dreams. They’re trying to remember six thousand ye...
the worst penne pasta in Italy, the tubs of it they would give refugees, was still better than the Oklahoma City Olive Garden. It was that good. The tomato sauce was rich and creamy with leaves of fresh basil, not dried. With parmesan cheese on the pasta, that was all you needed and you could eat three bowls and still crave more.
there were hundreds of forms to fill out, and nobody knew English all that well, and the rules changed all the time, and the agents hated talking to us. guessing which agent we would get. And we would watch their temper over the course of the day like farmers in Oklahoma watch rain clouds It was like sticking a wrinkly dollar into a candy machine over and over and having it spit the dollar out ...
Scheherazade was trying to make the king human again. She made him love life by showing him all of it, the funny parts about poop, the dangerous parts with demons, even the boring parts about what makes marriages last.
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