It’s been four years since Renaissance in the Daisy Field was published! In honor of this, I am sharing a special chapter.

This is a story of love between different species, touching on the universality of a security guard’s love for her adopted “child”.

Enes Talha Coşgun translated this story from Turkish to English. On a working day, those who were half asleep, their heads in their front, their hands in their pockets, on the way of their bread and butter; were staring at the image of a woman passing like a feather through the middle of the street and leaving an ephemeral strong wind behind her. As she was walking with running steps and her broom hair was flying, the woman was saying, “A promise… I made a promise.” She took to the main street regardless of the stranger glances and did not …