FROM ‘GHOST QUEEN’

Left for Dead

Short story, offering a bizarre and penetrating insight into the eternal horror that is the Middle East.

(Artwork by the author, from archive images.)

From an anthropologist’s notes.

We drove on; shuddering about in a battered Pontiac, through mile after mile of sun-scorched rocky desert, along an almost empty highway — a terrible place; the wastes of Northern Israel, no one in his right mind would…