The Artstars: Stories Nicola Barker Maxamed Daahir Afrax / Mohamed

Maxamed Daahir Afrax / Mohamed Dahir Afrah

events and people

for its language is as available as rain

taught her how to lie

Neil Verma

The Artstars: Stories Nicola Barker Maxamed Daahir Afrax / MohamedEnticing, heart wrenching, and darkly funny, the interconnected stories in The Artstars are set in creative communities an art school, an illegal loft studio, a guerrilla street performance troupe where teamwork and professional jealousy mix, and the artists grapple with economic realities and evolving expectations. A middle aged poet, reeling from 9 11, fights homesickness, writer's block, and ladybugs at an artist's colony. A new empty nester finds