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Siamak Vossoughi

Siamak Vossoughi was born in Tehran, grew up in Seattle, and lives in San Francisco. He has had some stories appear in Glimmer Train and The Rumpus and he is a recipient of the 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Winter 2015

Shoes

By Siamak Vossoughi

Hossein Mirzazadeh needed new shoes. The buying of the shoes themselves was a good adventure. He drove into downtown Seattle during his lunch break. There was a place that sold department-store items […]