Samira Is Wind - Shyam Gohel

The unnamed, shy and dreamy narrator of Samira Is Wind is having a hard time leaving Mani House (the Mani Center for Health and Housing, a Covenant Center for young people in their teens and early twenties)-the place that has saved her, kept her safe for twenty years, and brought her back to life. She has forgotten that repair and restoration are supposed to be temporary states.

The narrator finds echoes of her own feelings while listening to her friend, Samira. "Samira was saying to me, 'Maybe there're no bad emotions, ' when I thought to myself that I could write all this down. This would be like a journal. I would be writing someone else's journal. The thought of that deeply interested me. A journal was supposed to be the most private thoughts of a person, and here I was writing someone else's. And I was writing her journal because these were the words I was afraid to say all my life." - from Part 1, "Black Square"

Sometimes friends cannot say everything to each other. Memories are kept hidden, even from ourselves.Shyam Gohel's natural and artistic writing style brings to life these uncomfortable feelings.>Fiction / Poetry