the Dragon Earrings by Gwendalin-Niles, literature
Literature
the Dragon Earrings
I approached the most colorful stall. The marketplace was full of them, at least fifty tented tables side by side. They all sold the same things; fake diamond earrings, bracelets with evil eyes, gold painted necklace charms with Arabic prayer writings, coins and keys colored and artificially decayed to give an antique impression, cheap rubber wristwatches, paper daisy crowns, wind up toys Made in China. The sly sellers shouted in unison "Everything only 10 liras! Will never find better quality for so cheap anywhere else!" with their thick Turkish accents. The sentence most probably memorized, I doubted they knew only a handful of English word