Winning entry for The Salam Award’s 2022 competition!
The story follows a woman who is (not quite) at the end of her journey through the various difficulties of running a shoe store during (not quite) the end of the world. Ghosts of family members, dying technology, and lost shoes make appearances.
‘Let us Begin’ imagines a world in which entanglement between human minds leads to a kind of telepathic connection. Published in an anthology with short stories rooted in the complex reality of the climate crisis.
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