2024/028: Almost Surely Dead — Amina Akhtar

2024/028: Almost Surely Dead — Amina Akhtar

She’d say [a prayer] and then clap three times and blow air on me. Phook marring, it was called. She said it would keep all the scary things away when I was little. But it didn’t. She was the scary thing in my life, and the prayer never kept her away. [loc. 1315]

Dunia Ahmed is the subject of a 'true crime' podcast series: she's been missing for over a year, after several very public attempts on her life.( Read more... )