31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 10: “A Distant Episode” by Paul Bowles

May 10, 2022June 14, 2022

In a prelude to his iconic novel, Bowles offers up a tale of a hubristic
American academic who has the tables turned on him during a trip to North Africa.

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