Maud | Fiction

Noor Qasim

What I really want to talk about is the work.  Of course.  If we have to talk about something, it might as well be the work.  Well, we don’t have to talk about anything.  But you’d like to, right? So you have something to write about.  I’m open to discussing anything that interests you.  Okay. I don’t know. It’s just been a lot. I’d just like — I mean, we...

Controlled | Annie Ernaux and the Millennial Sex Novel

Noor Qasim

Let me tell you a story.  I was living in New York and going on dates with people I met on the internet. I was looking for love and was mostly getting sex, for which I was grateful, even if I was a little lonely. I went on a date. It was a third date, and on our second we’d slept together. It was good, the sort of gasping, grasping...