Notes from the Editors: In which we explore the magic word(s) that were indispensable to our resurrection. Open Sesame? Arise Lazarus? Abracadabra? Shazam? The Canary Flies at Midnight? Hallelujah? Voilà? Eureka? NO, no... a thousand times no...! Try BiliCH Drgm!...

Our Favorite Mail: The prayer that Qulibiew Mike finally heard!...

My Story: With all the success of those reality TV shows that have mezmerized the uncivilized world, SELEDA happily launches the first ever Cyber Ewnet ™ © ® show: Diary of a Frazzled Mushirit...

Surplus Smoke, Part I: Of miniskirts, radicals and replaced grandfathers...

Generations: Portentous birds, elusive scarves and ripened women...

Kiddie: How A and B told C to see her way out...

Fqr: Cluth, clench, cling we might. But it ain't stoppin' that thing they call Fqr from slippin'...

Bad Math at Abinet's Wedding: It's all in the numbers. We might not know anything about a person's destiny, but we could tell you more about cow sweat...

Commie Dirge: Heraclitus may have declared "Change alone is unchanging", but we reserve the right to resist and mourn.

Twist of Fate: A quiet leqso at a boisterous wedding...

Bawza: The camera: At graduations. At weddings. And now, at funerals...

But Next Door: It's that special moment when hyenas give birth...

Rants: "Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved," said Iris Murdoch...

Things I Never Thought I'd Do: There are more than forty exruciating days between an arba and a semaniya ...

AkistE TSion: A belly full of lamentations...

Backpage:: Itchin' to bust perpetual 28-year-old septuagenarians? A SELEDA guide...

Top Ten: Top Ten Wrong Songs at an Ethiopian Wedding...

Do the Right Thing:
No hungry stomach left behind...