For as long as he could remember, Jalil had always been an Aghazade.
“It’s a term of respect,” his father used to say. “It means you’re destined to bring abo...
Mohammad Hakima is an NYC-based author of Fiction. He moved to the United States in August of 1998 from Tehran, Iran. His fiction is published in Trampset, The Evergreen Review, The Capra Review, and etc. His stories have been twice a Finalist and once Shortlisted for the William Wisdom Faulkner prize. His work has received support from Vermont Studio Center, and he has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. He works as a high school special education teacher and has an MFA in fiction from The New School. He tweets at @mohammadhakima.