Joshua Craze is an essayist. His work has been recently published by Washington Monthly, Guardian, Onsite, and Small Arms Survey, amongst others. He is the co-editor of The Kingdom: Saudi Arabia in the 21st Century, and it currently writing a book called Line Language: on the border in the Middle East. This is the first short story he has published for many years, but, he warns you all, there are many more to come. He can be found here.