"No one knew her name, but all saw her face, and she liked this, being known only partially; the rest was a mystery, a blank slate on which she could write any future, any past."
Afsheen Farhadi's short fiction and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Witness, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. He is currently a Provost Graduate Fellow in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Cincinnati.