Ghost stories from Kuwait

The Amber Marble

I’ve never been one to believe in the supernatural, not really. Not until the marble. It wasn’t just any marble; it was a large, amber-colored glass sphere, about the size...

The Keyhole’s Click

The summer I turned twelve, my parents rented a small cottage by Lake Serene to escape the city heat. The cabin was old, with creaking floorboards and a musty smell...

The Blue Door

The apartment complex was called ‘The Blue Door’ for its singular, cobalt-painted entrance, the only splash of color against the sterile white concrete of Al-Sabah Towers. I had moved in...

The Broken Illuminations

In the autumn of 2011, I was freshly remarried and had just moved into a modest two-bedroom apartment in the Al-Nuzha district, near the bustling Sharq market. The place was...

The Cistern of Reflections

My grandfather’s house sat on a quiet cul-de-sac in the outskirts of a small New England town, a place where the forest pressed close and the fog rolled in like...

The Unfinished Room

In the autumn of 2009, my family and I moved from our cramped apartment in Kuala Lumpur to a sprawling two-story house in the quiet town of Taiping. It was...

The Clockmaker’s Embrace

In the autumn of 1998, I was six, living with my parents and my older brother in a creaking, centuries-old house in the outskirts of a small Vermont town. My...

The Cinder Man

Three years into my stint as an engineer in Bahrain, I shared a crumbling flat in the old district of Manama with two roommates, Ravi and Deepak. Our building, a...

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