What if you had the ability to make everything better for all the people who suffer like you do? Would you exercise it? At what cost? Those are the questions raised in Fatima Taqvi’s story in the Lightspeed magazine. A young street urchin in Karachi, Pakistan sits outside a tailor’s shop. One day, he notices something coming out of the mirror. He goes into the store to talk the tailor and finds himself his apprentice with a very odd set of instructions.
The city itself is a pivotal character in this exploration between the haves and the have-nots. We often think we know what we would do in difficult situations, but do we really? When the street urchin is presented with such a challenge, like most of us, he is confident in saying what he will do. But the charm of this story is that plays with the struggle of what he will actually do.
My rating: 4/5
