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The Key
The minibus was crowded. The passengers, the grinding of the gears, the hiss of the automatic door opening and closing, a muffled song from the loudspeaker – it all blended together into a single drone.
E. Ezgi Kayaoğulları8 min readAUTHOR
E. Ezgi Kayaoğulları
E. Ezgi Kayaoğulları was born in Mersin. As the middle one of three siblings, Kayaoğulları learned to be an older sibling when needed and a younger sibling when needed. Kayaoğulları went to Ankara for university and grew up there; after finishing school, started working, got married and became a parent. Life then led to İstanbul; after working for twenty-five years at various companies and on various projects in the private sector, Kayaoğulları retired voluntarily and settled in the Erdek district of Balıkesir. Recently, Kayaoğulları has focused on fiction and has taken part in creative writing and short story workshops. Kayaoğulları’s stories and essays have been published on literary platforms and in digital media; the short story “Çikolata” was included in the İshak Edebiyat 2025 Öykü Seçkisi. Kayaoğulları loves nature, forests, the sky, the summer season and cats.
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