Stranded: How Coronavirus Border Closings Broke This Mother’s Heart

artwork by khadijah nur

Maryam Ismail

Fly Away Home

Flights disappeared, borders closed, and like some scene from an action movie, I was racing against time, and losing ground to stand on. I was trying to get my baby, back home. She was away at school-so far away and this was beginning of a pandemic. The sky was gray and cloudy. When, a…