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L.F. Khouri is a Palestinian writer whose work explores war, memory, and the inheritance of silence. His writing appears or is forthcoming in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, River Teeth, Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica, The Rumpus, Massachusetts Review, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. Two of his pieces were selected for Best Microfiction 2026.
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3 comments
Naomi Shihab Nye says:
May 1, 2026
So powerful! Thank you for writing and publishing this. Hearts broken daily and endlessly. I appreciate your elegant restraint here.
Marianna Marlowe says:
May 2, 2026
Beautiful and tragic. We too must learn how to look, and look away, and why both matter.
BJ Gesteland says:
May 5, 2026
Poignant and powerful. Thank you for sharing.