Your post has provided me with a better grasp of the text and what is really happening in both stories. In my post I tried to connect both “Sorry” and “The Return” coming to the conclusion that one or multiple men that had found Sakina had assaulted her and the scene in the beginning was a description of that event but I now realize that they were discrete stories and, I agree with your take on both pieces and I think Dylan Patel does well to put it into words, stating that the author had employed an element of subversion in both pieces that play on our expectations then sharply disabuses us of them, unveiling the curtain to reality.