I am honored The Massachusetts Review, an amazing magazine for new literature and art, has published my first short story. It's an incredibly personal piece that emerged on a trip to Berlin 2 summers ago, about my mom, about love, about the passing of time. Also it's funny (I hope!). Enjoy!
"Nine years after my mother died, I saw her in Berlin. She was Turkish this time, religious too from the look of it so there was a headscarf. Her skin was slightly darker but it was her, no doubt.The same shocking blue eyes, almond at the edges, and the same huge belly she’d had in the final, dandelion-puff phase of her life: round and fragile, apt to blow away. Luckily, I knew a bit of Turkish from two trips to Istanbul."
"Nine years after my mother died, I saw her in Berlin. She was Turkish this time, religious too from the look of it so there was a headscarf. Her skin was slightly darker but it was her, no doubt.The same shocking blue eyes, almond at the edges, and the same huge belly she’d had in the final, dandelion-puff phase of her life: round and fragile, apt to blow away. Luckily, I knew a bit of Turkish from two trips to Istanbul."
...to read the rest:
https://www.massreview.org/sites/default/files/13_58.1Zellnik.pdf
https://www.massreview.org/sites/default/files/13_58.1Zellnik.pdf
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