Ghost stories from United Arab Emirates

The Weight of the Warm Wind

The night air in Al-Mansur City was thick as wet wool, clinging to my skin even as the ceiling fan whirred overhead. At 42 degrees, the heat was a living...

The Man in the Pinstripe Suit

The first time I saw him, I was six, standing at the foot of my grandmother’s staircase in our old farmhouse in Nebraska. It was a house that had a...

The Crooked Pine

The pines on the ridge stood like mourners, their needles a somber green against the gray sky. I had come to the Hermitage of the Still Water to escape the...

The Static Between Us

The phone rang at 3:17 AM, a shrill, mechanical sound that cut through the humid silence of my apartment. I fumbled for the receiver, my heart hammering. ‘Hello?’ I croaked....

The Half-Cough at 2:55

I have a peculiar habit of devouring books in the dead of night, when the house settles into a creaking stillness and the world seems to hold its breath. My...

The Green Sentinel

In the sweltering summer of 2006, I, Asher, was fifteen, and my family had traveled to the outskirts of Marrakech to visit my aunt. Her house was a traditional riad,...

The Girl Who Knew the Salt

The day the exams ended, I felt lighter than air. I remember kicking my school bag into a corner and collapsing onto the sofa, the remote already in my hand....

The Salt Line

My name is Arjun, and this is the story of the house that taught me the true meaning of thirst. We had been living in a cramped apartment in Pune,...

The Salt in the Air

I first heard the crying in the autumn of last year, in a small, dimly lit pub called The Mariner’s Rest, tucked into a narrow alley in the old fishing...

The Clockwork Tenant

The day we moved into the third-floor walk-up on Meridian Street, I convinced myself the musty smell was just old plaster and forgotten dreams. The flat was twice the size...

The Self-Dialed Call

My name is Arjun, and I am in the eighth grade. Every weekday, after school, I come home to an empty apartment. My mother, Meera, works as a junior architect...

The Constant Gardener’s Glove

I was halfway through my online course when Leo, my seven-year-old nephew, shuffled into the study, his face pale beneath his mop of red hair. He clutched a well-worn paperback,...

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