Narisa
By: C.
Stanton Leman
Preface
This, my
second story, is a slow romantic tale about two young teens: a
fourteen-year-old American boy in Tehran, Iran and a thirteen-year-old Iranian
girl thrust together by circumstances of culture, religious fundamentalism and
injustice due to a confrontation with Iran’s morality police that changes their
lives forever. It is definitely not a stroke story.
I must warn
readers that there is some violence in this story that is necessary to the
plot, but it is not a common theme, thread or a part of the teens’
relationship.
The sentences
described herein and those issued to the characters in this story for supposed
crimes such as “crimes that offend the public morality” and “acts incompatible
with public chastity” are well documented by actual incidents and are factual.
I
must point out that the fundamentalist Koranic interpretation regarding the
marriage of a Muslim woman and a Jewish or Christian man is that they
absolutely forbid it. In more multi-cultural and multi-ethnic societies such as
Australia, Canada and the United States, moderate Islamic scholars of the Koran
have given the interpretation that is used in this story to Muslim women where
Muslims and Christians or Jews are more likely to meet, fall in love and marry.
They let the individual Muslim woman make her own choice whether to enter into
a marriage with a non-Muslim man.
Again,
this is a fictional, erotic tale, and any resemblance to anyone living or dead
or paralleling actual events is strictly accidental. Although there are
characters that are Muslim and I describe Islamic customs, I am not Muslim.
Each country and even different regions and sects have different
interpretations and customs regarding Islam. So, if I’ve erred, it is purely
unintentional.
I wish to
express my thanks to Morgan for his excellent editing skills. He’s taught me a
lot in a short amount of time. One last thing: thanks to all my fans for their
support while I was away. Please keep sending your feedback, it will be answered.