Fiction
Publishing Genius [Press]
60 pp
5 x 7"
perfect bound paperback

MLKNG SCKLS is a book of short stories that are "deleted scenes" from Justin and Haneen's novel Falcons on the Floor. The narrative follow Salim and Khalil, two young men from Fallujah, Iraq, as they leave their hometown on the eve of the first US siege. They do not want to fight in the uprising. They thing walking up the Euphrates river to Ramadi might be safer. Acclimated by Book Slut (.com), the Baltimore City Paper, and over a dozen online literary journals, MLKNG SCKLS has functioned as a book trailer for the forthcoming Falcons on the Floor from Publishing Genius [Press].

Justin Sirois wrote MLKNG SCKLS with the help of Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. She and her family left Baghdad and Fallujah in 2003 and currently live in Cairo. Justin and Haneen worked on MLKNG SCKLS and the novel Falcons on the Floor for three years, all over the internet. They have yet to meet in person.
  • Justin Sirois reading from MLKNG SCKLS
  • Haneen Alshujairy
    Haneen Alshujairy
    This book of short stories would not exist without the editorial support of Haneen Alshujairy. Haneen and her family fled Baghdad in the summer of 2003 as Iraq succumbed to sectarian violence. After spending two years in Jordan, the Alshujairy family moved to Cairo. Haneen left Egypt after the Arab Spring to seek asylum in the United States. She now lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She and Justin met for the first time in 2014 after working on projects for nearly six years.
  • blurbs and praise for MLKNG SCKLS
    Praised by Brian Evenson (Brown University, author of Last Days and Dark Property), Book Slut, Baltimore City Paper, Decomp Magazine, Michael Fitzgerald (author of Radiant Days, Counterpoint Press), and others.
  • cover by Connor Willumsen
    cover by Connor Willumsen
  • first story from MLKNG SCKLS - part 2
    MLKNG SCKLS is a book of short stories that are "deleted scenes" from Justin and Haneen's novel Falcons on the Floor. The narrative follow Salim and Khalil, two young men from Fallujah, as they leave their hometown on the eve of the first US siege. They do not want to fight in the uprising. They thing walking up the Euphrates river to Ramadi might be safer. Acclimated by Book Slut (.com), the Baltimore City Paper, and over a dozen online literary journals, MLKNG SCKLS has functioned as a book trailer for the forthcoming Falcons on the Floor from Publishing Genius [Press].
  • first story from MLKNG SCKLS - part
    MLKNG SCKLS is a book of short stories that are "deleted scenes" from Justin and Haneen's novel Falcons on the Floor. The narrative follow Salim and Khalil, two young men from Fallujah, as they leave their hometown on the eve of the first US siege. They do not want to fight in the uprising. They thing walking up the Euphrates river to Ramadi might be safer. Acclimated by Book Slut (.com), the Baltimore City Paper, and over a dozen online literary journals, MLKNG SCKLS has functioned as a book trailer for the forthcoming Falcons on the Floor from Publishing Genius [Press].
  • complete MLKNG SCKLS book
    MLKNG SCKLS is a book of short stories that are "deleted scenes" from Justin and Haneen's novel Falcons on the Floor. The narrative follow Salim and Khalil, two young men from Fallujah, as they leave their hometown on the eve of the first US siege. They do not want to fight in the uprising. They thing walking up the Euphrates river to Ramadi might be safer. Acclimated by Book Slut (.com), the Baltimore City Paper, and over a dozen online literary journals, MLKNG SCKLS has functioned as a book trailer for the forthcoming Falcons on the Floor from Publishing Genius [Press].
  • MLKNG SCKLS
    MLKNG SCKLS
    fiction, 60 pages Prequel to the Fallujah Burning Series -- Blurb from Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses and Windy -- "A tight, spare, and quietly tense gem of a book."
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