io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine . Once a month , we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “It Might Be He Returns” by Fatima Taqvi. Enjoy!

It Might Be He Returns

By Fatima Taqvi

What you need to know about the boy in this story is he is always hungry and the sun is always too hot for him, and he would save the world if he could. This is what he tells himself as he sits opposite the tailor’s shop, looking at the clothes sway in the breeze of the air conditioner within. Fawad would save the world, he would change fate itself. He would give his parents the best of the best. March into any school he wants. Get any kind of education he needs to feel like the person he knows he could be.

The mirror in Master Jee’s shop has a

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