Kharg – The Bleeding Black Pearl of Persia

By Calvin P. Tran

On the one thousand and second night, when the oil lamps in the palace had burned low and the desert wind drifted through the cold stone corridors, she bowed before the king and began once more:

“Your Majesty, tonight’s tale begins on a small island in the Persian Gulf, where the sea is deep blue, yet the earth beneath is as black as tar.
That island is called Kharg Island.”