Siamak Vossoughi
Siamak Vossoughi is an Iranian-American writer living in Seattle. His stories appear in the Kenyon Review, the Missouri Review, the Idaho Review, Gulf Coast, Columbia Journal, and Copper Nickel. His first collection, Better Than War, received a 2014 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and his second collection, A Sense of the Whole, received the 2019 Orison Fiction Prize. His third collection is forthcoming from Sarabande.
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Baba is Going into the Crawl Space
The two girls watched him. They knew what a house was. They knew it was a thing with rooms, and that it was for a family. They knew that their house was for their family. A house was not for one of the people in the family to go under, into some dark place.