![]() They follow him home and state that they belong to him. ![]() In this case ten-year-old Pauly discovers three masquerades, supernatural beings in gorgeously elaborate African garb. “ Masquerade Season” by ‘ Pemi Aguda follows a well-worn path, where something magical discovered by a child is exploited by adults and thus diminished. Malik is known as a horror writer, but this story eschews almost anything horrific until the very end. She refuses to quarantine with him, insisting on returning to her riverbank where many poverty-stricken people need her help. Their romance develops along with his respect for her boundaries, but everything changes when a contagious disease sends everyone into lockdown. The pichal pairi of folklore is a female monster with backwards feet who devours men Farah has achingly backward feet but is much more likely to attend a dance (or college abroad) than engage in cannibalism. ![]() ![]() “ #Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi” is his latest take on the pandemic, where the narrator is a reporter in Lahore who interviews a particularly woke, feminist pichal pairi. ![]()
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