assistance” in solving Rayshawn’s killing.


The Record reported on March 25, 2015, that Silva had said his unoccupied home had been robbed a second time the previous day. Silva has said that multiple items, including a gun safe, were stolen from that house.

Silva, 42, has said that another gun theft, which he reported this past February, occurred while he was on a Sister Cities tour of the Philippines that month. It was stolen from the north Stockton rental home where he lives. Silva said in April he had “an idea” who stole that gun.

The gun used in Rayshawn’s slaying was recovered by the Stockton Police Department on June 9 when officers responded to a domestic disturbance in Stockton, according to the district attorney’s office. The other stolen gun hasBut Arabic literature also boasts great anti-love lit, from the great Abbasid-era authors through today. Two years ago, translator Thoraya El-Rayyes first brought us Yehia Jaber’s anti-love “How I Became a Suicide Bomber.” This year, it’s a short story from the Jordanian writer Basma Nsour:

That Pathetic Woman

Courtesy of Ghazala Mehboob Irshad.

By Basma Nsour,translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes

It occurred to me to claw up the dirt with my fingers. To wrench him away from his death. To look for traces of myself in his lifeless features. To slap him because he died in her bed. He was with her when his heart suddenly stopped. She was the one who rushed to the emergency room, who the doctor patted on the shoulder as he told her: Life is