I Read Stories: Gas Station

Gas Station by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Wally is a reporter in New York in 1988. He’s working on a people-trafficking story because an Indian woman in a toll booth stopped some people traffickers, and some others, in a grey van, looked Indian. His name is Wallyudin Nusrat Remtulla, and he gets all the ethnic PC bullshit stories.

And thanks to his friends in the community he might break the case open. At the very least he’s going to get his story in for the deadline.

Read This: For a sketch of reporting, that focuses on the tiny things that divide communities, and the big things that unite them
Don’t Read This: If you want a straightforward crime story.
Art by Nahal Hashir