When Matthew and his three travel companions travel to a remote desert village, they’re stunned by the beauty—and mortified by an unexpected visitor.

Matthew is interviewed by author and filmmaker Erin Byrne, who is also editor of the Vignettes and Postcards from Morocco anthology. This episode is excerpted from that interview, where Erin asks Matthew not only about his book, With Open Arms: Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco, at a...