Inverse Journal

Sadam Hussain

On “Frog in the Mouth” and Other Short Stories from Zahid Rafiq’s The World with Its Mouth Open — A Commentary by Sadam Hussain

Sadam Hussain offers an insightful commentary on Zahid Rafiq’s The World with Its Mouth Open (Tin House, 2024), with particular emphasis on the collection’s closing story, “Frog in the Mouth,” which the author presented during a virtual reading at Cornell University. In resisting the conventions of

The All-Knowing Made Us Know Pain — Four Poems in Four Acts by Sadam Hussain

Set upon a dark stage that Kashmir has invariably become, Sadam Hussain presents four poems that read like four acts of a macabre tragedy—except there is no curtain call and the curtains are never drawn, there where hell has no end and paradise no beginning.