Timeless Love

Timesless Love by Behcet Kaya

The dream kept repeating.  Night after night, the characters were the same; a man and three young women.

The man was tall with a big belly, small fat hands, dark hair, bushy eyebrows, double chin, and deep-set intelligent eyes. I knew who he was; a character I was developing in a novel.

The Town of Pergama

The Town of Pergama by Behcet Kaya

The small southern town of Pergama is situated in a lush valley setting, as typical and as atypical as any small town in America can be.

My profession as a traveling salesman affords me the opportunity to observe both the natural beauty of the landscape, as well as the intricacies of human nature.

Payback

Payback by Behcet Kaya

Wealthy Lowry Totenham looked back on his life and smiled at the pauper with no formal training who came to America with nothing more than big dreams.

He remembered the modest home he came from, a little shanty, one of many homesteads on the slopes of the hills of Istanbul, Turkey aiming desperately for the genteel yet achieving a sordid melancholy.

Joana

Joana by Behcet Kaya

For several weeks Joana Miller had remained quiet and attentive to her chores.

She completed her grocery list with efficiency, dusted the house, swept the floors and did countless loads of laundry, carefully folding her clothes and her husband's. She paid bills online, balanced her checkbook and rechecked bank statements.

Daydreamer

Daydreamer

Daydreamer by Behcet Kaya

Bidel is a lovely sixteen-year-old, with a slender figure, luminous eyes of varying shades of green, and unusually long eyelashes.

She is an above-average student, although she never seems to have to study.

She lives with her parents in a wealthy, gated community.

Blizzard

Blizzard by Behcet Kaya

Firdes Yildirim had not visited her village in over three years.

She finally gave her husband, Bagatur, an ultimatum:

"If you don't take me back to see my parents, I will go myself and never return."

Autopsy

Autopsy by Behcet Kaya

Detective Ron Pillard walked through a set of double doors. He followed the signs, turned left and entered the men's public restroom.

Stopping at the entrance, he eyed two rows of stalls. Several doors were closed in the row to the left, but he finally noticed the two stall doors at the end were open.

A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story by Behcet Kaya

I was on a mission.

Taking off from Incirlik Airbase in Turkey, I was flying into northern Iraq to seek my target. Twenty-five minutes into my flight the left engine caught fire.

Down below, I could see civilians, mostly women and children.

Cappadocia, Land of Magic

Cappadocia, Land of Magic by Behcet Kaya

Turkey is unendingly, unmitigatedly surprising; each area having a look of its own distinction.

At the beginning of the four-hour bus ride from Ankara to the area known as Cappadocia, one hardly sees a steep hill, but rather miles of endless, golden wheat fields. Then come the marshy shores of the great salt lake, Tuz Golu.

Tugba and Ibrahim: A Love Story by Behcet Kaya

She worked assiduously, arduously just to clear the entrance to the house, piling the snow on both sides of the path that was now as tall as she was from the previous shoveling.

She was sweating as she finally reached the street, and the last shovel full she threw landed on a young man passing by.