Marginal Stories

The Last Rectangle and Other Short Stories

Title               The Last Rectangle and Other Short Stories
Author          Akram Najjar 
Price              $5.00 
Published     February 2026
Size                212 pages (58,000 words) 
Language      English  

These are stories that concentrate on writing that does not use traditional narrative or plots or character analysis. They move away from socio-psychological or pseudo auto-biographical fiction. They are literary ventures that toy with literary devices resulting realistic fantasies or magic realist. Some could be documentary fiction. 

A series of houses that envelope a story each. A set of paintings that contravene the principles of the Golden Ratio, Phi. A crab and its choices. A festival of laughter. A man whose life is encumbered with practical non-psychological and non-social difficulties. An afternoon spent by 4 unusual companions. An exercise in compact event recounting in short pages. Examining what would happen if our decisions were based on negative inference. Two stories that confront interrogators with silent victims. Insipid government practices that leave citizens breathing with peace. How to make a scarab from a beetle. A prisoner who subverts the offer of a last wish. Coffins that refuse to enter into their assigned graves result in two negative feedback ecological cycles. An adventure to show how individuals have their own sacred space. 

Some are half a page long while others go up to 10 pages.  

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Table of Contents

The Scarab
Dr. Giacometti
The Hakawati
The Lion
The Rat
My Grandmother Never Told Me a Novel
The Crab
Dead Cars
The Last Wish
Interrogation 1
Interrogation 2
The Biology Teacher
The Festival of Laughter
The Scent of Pine
The Building
Trains
Things I Have Stolen

Quartet Afternoon
1009
Five Houses and Five Stories
House 1 - Adele's Door
House 2 - Malek's Operation
House 3 - Mireille's Promise
House 4 - Salwa's Distance
House 5 - Dalal's Spirit
The Prince Who Danced
The Man with Difficulties
Eight Variations on No Theme
The Law of Negative Inference
Lenders and Borrowers
The Sacred and the Profane
The The Last Rectangle