The ImamChapter 7
MORNING 21st of Sha’baan 1417 (January 1, 1997) Queresh awoke the next morning in the darkness. The blinds had been pulled. Nausea and a headache captured him. He felt for another body but found only tangled sheets and a cold pillow. He reached down to his loins which burned with soreness. And then he remembered what had happened. He saw images: his wife below him. Was she screaming? Her arms fought like nervous tentacles. He felt a burning on his face. Scratches still bled. He ran his...