The Night Sorceress

About this book

Dr. Samah Saeed Al-Wakeel's collection looks behind visible reality toward a realm where dreams meet disappointment and the boundaries between human being and machine, truth and mirage, begin to dissolve. A sweet may become a dose of life; a robotic “family friend” may consume the warmth it was meant to support. The stories move through estrangement, old houses inhabited by love and pain, and city streets that swallow ordinary people's ambitions. Mystery serves not as decoration but as a way of revealing emotional imbalance in a world changing faster than its inhabitants can understand. Philosophical reflection and human detail turn each narrative into a mirror. The collection asks whether a memory can guide someone home and whether the shadow beside us is an enemy—or a lesson not yet understood.