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Ayşe Papatya Bucak

Fiction

Spring 2014

An Ottoman’s Arabesque

By Ayşe Papatya Bucak

But how shall we define the Infinite?             — Rumi His eyes were frequently inflamed and he feared going blind. Most of the time he wore blue glasses. The papers often […]

Ayşe Papatya Bucak

Ayşe Papatya Bucak teaches in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. Her work has been selected for the 2013 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories and published in a variety of […]