Ordinary moments. Unspoken rules. Both worth a closer look.

Ashraf Sleiman Agha is a writer who pays close attention to the moments people rush past, and the habits we all recognise but rarely name out loud. He writes fiction and observation with the same instinct: find the truth hiding in plain sight, and say it gently enough that readers recognise themselves in it.

His debut collection, 101 Stories of Us, gathers short, quietly devastating glimpses of everyday life: the choices, regrets, and small victories that make up who we are. In The Guest, he turns that same close attention outward, to the unwritten rules of being welcomed into someone else's life. Two books, free to read in full. Start below.