Patricia Marsh-Stefanovska is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, author of The Scribe of the Soul and The Enigma of the Margate Shell Grotto, and translator of a number of plays and poems from Macedonian into English. She lectured in English at the University of Skopje for a long period before returning to live and work in the UK in 1992.
A Curse
May you be eaten by Paradise! was Father Kleopa’s
curse on me. Steep was the ground
from his skete to the foot of the hill where I stood.
The curses our people use have always been…