title: Why is the dog blue?
author: Janet Driggers
description: Janet Driggers is a busy mother who enjoys reading books to her children and drawing. Intrigued by her curious children and their constant WHY questions, she decided to take on a new adventure with a twist. In the little spare time she had, she wrote and illustrated her first book, "Why is the dog blue?"
zlib_text: Blues for Allah  
  Ahmede Hussain 
  1 
  Shormi woke up from a long nap by the sound of a cat screeching. 
  The rain had just stopped and the curtains were tightly pulled. Bright 
  sunlight that fell on the mirror gave her face a raffish charm. There was a 
  small photo-frame on the bedside table. She looked much younger in black 
  and white, helping a toddler walk. The boy was holding a toy gun and was 
  staring at the camera with a menacing look. Both of them looked forlorn, 
  like the ice creams they consumed years ago on a holiday-trip to Cox’s Ba-
  zaar – long lost and forgotten. 
  The cat crawled in and sat at the windowpane; its shadow fell on the 
  Persian carpet and grew bigger as it walked past the room. Shormi got up 
  to her feet, staggered down the room to pick up the cell. She was wearing a 
  dainty yellow sarong and a white T-shirt; and there was something about 
  her uncertain manner, as well as her clothes, that suggested a moth. The 
  cat was gone when she returned: it started raining