A Handful of Dust, That’s It

In “A Handful of Dust, That’s It,” a pregnant woman waits at a train station with her young son for her husband’s arrival from Khorramshahr. The woman’s husband is a member of a reconnaissance team and has gone to Khorramshahr to find war victims’ bodies from the imposed war. The woman repeatedly warns her husband against going to that dangerous area due to the possible presence of mines, but the man convinces her with various reasons. This collection contains 23 short stories, with “A Handful of Dust, That’s It” being one of them.