In the Night's Crevice

About this book

Behind bolted doors and in the dark corners of our "gray, dull" cities, there are tales not told with words, but with whispers and stifled breaths. Writer Ahmed Al-Muazzin opens in his new short-story collection "In the Night's Crevice" a small window - or perhaps a hole - through which we look onto parallel worlds where truth's ghosts and sedimented disappointment dwell at the soul's bottom. This work is no mere chronicle of passing stories, but a journey into the human psyche's labyrinths when it finds itself facing "black holes" swallowing their heroes with madness or absurdity. We move between Manama's alleys and London's streets, accompany a child watching his father's travel bag searching for "the second land's" riddle, a man drowning in a whirlwind of feminine machinations and false promises, and another chasing his past's ghosts in estrangement's alleys. The book's tone is distinguished by a unique blend of enchanting mystery and aching inspiration; shedding light on those decisive moments when one discovers "a final accounting of the past's bills." They are stories written for those who feel the weight of cities "steaming their hair with diesel smoke," and for searchers for their selves amid withering memory's rubble. "In the Night's Crevice" is an invitation to contemplate the fractures making us more human, and to search for the light that may slip through the smallest hole in despair's wall.