Short Story: A Long Drive by Mumin Mian
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Mumin Mian narrates a moving tale of love and the journey of rediscovering the deeper meaning of love through motherhood.
The cassette clicked and skipped half a beat in the player before the opening melody sprouted like fuzz out from the car speakers. In the passenger seat, the young woman hummed along. This was, at the current moment, her favourite song in the world. Long had she dreamed of these dulcet words manifesting themselves truly into her own reality. Long before she had ever even heard them.
“When I saw this girl, I felt
Like a blooming rose,
Like a poet’s dream,
Like a brilliant ray of sunlight,
Like a deer in a forest,
Like a moonlit night,
Like a tender word.”
