On a hot summers afternoon, a group of women and girls travel together in a shared minibus. Now five years after the return of the Taliban, ‘The Bus Stop’ describes the realities of life in Afghanistan for women who experienced education and freedom, only to have it taken away.
Written by L.R. (a pseudonym), translated from Pashto by Abdul Bacet Khurram.
This story was produced as part of Paranda a writer development programme and global network for women writers in Afghanistan and the diaspora, facilitated by Untold Narratives, a development programme for writers structurally marginalised by community or conflict, and supported by KfW Stiftung.
