A dead djinn in cairo5/14/2023 ![]() ![]() You crane your neck to gape up at her, too taken at first to speak and lost in her terrible beauty." A draping skirt of gold conceals her legs and feet, falling in cascades to flow upon the ground below. She sits amid a bed of brocaded cushions on a mammoth moss-green divan, chin propped upon a fist in a thinker’s repose. Shimmering silver wings lay folded on her back, a bundle of metallic feathers inscribed with turquoise script that shifts and writhes before your eyes. Her body is wrought of iron and brass: a living statue in the form of a lithe woman constructed of clockwork machinery that hums and moves to its own metronomic rhythm. Even bowed as she is, her head near brushes the ceiling. "The Angel of Khan el-Khalili is a towering giant. ![]() Similar to A Dead Djinn in Cairo, you can read it for free here. To make things even crazier, the author has the bravery to write the short story in second-person POV, which super often just doesn’t click with me. I am frankly impressed this short story about a girl asking an angel for a miracle was packed with so much emotion. ![]() The Angel of Khan el-Kalili is a short story in Clark’s Dead Djinn Universe it is a prequel to the main novel, A Master of Djinn. I’m even more excited to read A Master of Djinn. ![]()
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