Bare Trees In The Mist
- Short fiction
A young mother, Kaali, and her young son hear that a villager who has returned home from abroad has brought them gifts. At first Kaali rejects this possibility. But a combination of poverty, desperation, and hope makes her walk miles to greet him. At the onset of winter, out of contact with her husband, himself somewhere in Saudi Arabia, Kaali finds herself on the brink.