The Executioner: A Testimony in the Memory of Stone - Lunch Ticket

The Executioner: A Testimony in the Memory of Stone - Lunch Ticket

July 18, 2025/ Faouzia Aloui, translated by Ali Znaidi My soul is tied up to an old column. I recall, in the slumber of the night, its stone history. I run my hand over the fossilisation of time on its cold body. My hand collides with its protrusions. These are letters I don’t read, mute because of their shackles. And this is the sound of birds that landed in a tree and stared at a horizon that could not fly after they were used to kiss its clou…