In Iran I used to have a friend which I will call Ghasem. Ghasem used to
see this girl (let's call her Sakineh) riding the minibus every night
and of course she had noticed him too. Unbeknownst to Ghasem Sakineh had
a lover in the Azari neighborhood whose name was Esmail. To Esmail
Sakineh was a possession like a jewel on his crown. With each ride that
passed Ghasem and Sakineh's story continued and eventually Ghasem took
Sakineh's heart. So one day she looked him in the eyes and said they
couldn't meet again. Meanwhile the word was out on the streets that
Sakineh was messing with someone. As a result Esmail began looking for
Ghasem with a vengeance and a gun. We kept telling Ghasem he better run
and that he was playing with fire but to no avail. One night as time
stood still Ghasem met with Sakineh on a rooftop in the night but they
couldn't hear Esmail coming until he had them both in sight. A shot ran
out like thunder and the blood was on Sakineh's hands with nothing won.
The moral of the story is when someone lies there dying lovers finally
understand.
With the patchy information released we never quite understood who shot
who. Sakineh was taken into custody so we initially thought she shot
both Ghasem and Esmail but there was only one body bag. Another theory
was that Ghasem and Esmail each shot each other. If that was the case
then they both died because of Sakineh.
I remember when I first arrived in the US due to the different culture I was brought up in, the folks in town teased me and considered me "not right" and implied slight mental illness or simply being different. I was in a relationship of some kind with this girl in town. She once told me, “Everybody thinks I should be afraid of you, but I’m not.” The town's sheriff would take photographs of us and follow one or both of us in his vehicle. Eventually I caught her making love to an unidentified person. Shortly afterwards the sheriff also arrived and spotted me. I fled, leaving my scarf behind on the branch of a bush. My girlfriend disappeared under suspicious circumstances and was later found dead. Shunned by many, I was immediately considered the main suspect. While in the interrogation room, I was shown a white cloth, which the sheriff identified as the item used to strangle the girl. I denied that the girl and I were romantically involved. Locals vandalized o...
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