Kim Hester – Author

Recent Posts

• Beyond the Abyss

  By Kim Hester on February 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The following is a passage from the novel in progress Beyond the Abyss in which the heroine, American Ambassador Judith Landers, is thinking, as she gets ready for a diplomatic reception, about the attentions she is getting from another diplomat…. Read More ›

• Journey to Karachi

  By Kim Hester on February 8, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  I arrived in Karachi with the stomach bug I picked up from the roadside-stand greasy samosas I ate near Lahore. I had trouble in keeping anything down and needed a hotel room fast to get some rest for fear I… Read More ›

• The Beauty Contest

  By Kim Hester on January 17, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  It was three o’clock in the morning and silence pervaded the Rub al-Khali, the largest sand desert in the world. Drifts of sand were swirling down the sides of the 100-yard high dunes when Waleed Al Harbi woke up in… Read More ›

• A Bit of Frankincense

  By Kim Hester on November 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Sitting in my studio apartment here in Al Khobar on the shores of the Persian Gulf is a small plastic box measuring 4 inches long by 3 inches wide by 1½ inches deep and weighing 4 ounces. In it is… Read More ›

• An Anecdote for Your Amusement

  By Kim Hester on November 16, 2012 • ( 10 )

  

  It has occurred to me that some of my posts on the blog are about quite serious matters, so perhaps I should lighten up in a new blog and tell you about the writing I have produced that is on… Read More ›

• Greetings!

  By Kim Hester on November 15, 2012 • ( 2 )

  Greetings and salutations to all my readers. Am keeping busy at the end of the year working on the novel Beyond the Abyss (which is set in the Fiji Islands, Paris, Washington, D.C., Saudi Arabia, and Diego Garcia, among other… Read More ›

• Short Story ‘The Square’

  By Kim Hester on November 15, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  The Square by Kim Hester Our farm was like an oasis shielded by the surrounding miles of sand from cities and people. There was not much to see apart from our simple wood frame house and the corrals fencing in… Read More ›

• Essay on Middle East

  By Kim Hester on November 15, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  The following is an essay I wrote recently on society and conditions in the Middle East. — Kim Hester The Abqaiq-Dammam Road by Kim Hester Beware all ye innocent ones who venture onto the Abqaiq-Damman road, for on it roam… Read More ›