“‘Before you go, make sure to mop the bathroom floor.’ Mrs Ibrahim’s voice is distracted.
‘Yes, madam,’ Mrs Pinto says. They both know she has cleaned the entire house from attic to cellar that very morning.”
Reshma and I have the same publisher for our short story collections, the small but mighty Dahlia Press, run by the brilliant Farhana Shaikh. I’ve heard Reshma read this story a few times at various literary events and I’m always excited to hear it again – I feel like I get more from it every time. The characters feel so real and fully formed that this little story packs as much into it as some whole novels, but leaves you wanting to turn the page and read on.
Collected in Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness, Dahlia Press, 2021
A Personal Anthology 