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Saadi's promise
From Republic Street, first Faisal
Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets
Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers
and drugs
Saadi's promise
Saadi Al-Rayek closes the door of her tent in Al-Rahba Al-Kubra, which mediates the ten hills of Ghajar Ruwaiqi in the Lesser Desert, when the time comes for Jupiter’s promise of a piece of the Taksim Desert behind the larger hill of the Western Oasis.
The man descends from the back of his mule to show Saadi the piece of desert offered for sale, and when he does not like it because it is outside the range of residential areas, she charges the price of the inspection as an intermediary. The partition on which space is written for sale, and you give it in exchange for a service every day.. Zaghloul Halabi pulls Saadi's mule from the cemetery next to the cemetery in which he lives, so that she can transport it wherever she wants.
Saadi returns to her living tent, where she feeds her disabled son, who is just over twenty, and leaves him to sleep.. She sets off again to the mediators' tent in the shift of the night.. She begins to receive the buyer of the horses announced by the herald among the ten hills and the neighboring hills, as Saadi wanted, and the herald asserts that His Majesty is the King of the North The south used to ride these horses and used to travel with them in its official processions across its fertile valley.
The tent was filled to the brim, behind, front, right and left with lovers of the purebred horses that His Majesty the King used to ride.
Saadi came with the first horse, ridden by the beautiful gypsy belle, Baarouf. The auction began on the horse first, and the belle second.
Clusters of dinars are piled up in the middle chest of Saadi's tent.
Saadi is not content with the imaginary profits she has achieved in two-thirds of the day, but she calls her sister-in-law, Qarfas Sayegh, who is assigned to guard her in the dark of the night from bandits, to bring her mule.
The man comes, and she accompanies him under the wing of darkness, followed by Saegh crouching, carrying the dagger and the gun.
He squatted open the door of the first tent, so the tenant was not surprised.. His second, third, and fourth tans were exposed, and he began to groan.. It was midnight in the desert, so the man stopped at the fifth tent, which surprised the three as the door was opened due to the presence of a dim light. Saadi is usually reassured that the tents are empty of her sister’s husband, to bring the customer after The customer stays for a limited period, which is the period of absence of the tent owners in the nearby cities.
Qarfas Sayegh feels his footsteps inside the tent, followed by the two of them, to meet the three of them with a gunpowder aimed at them. Torches are lit coming from the nearby tents, illuminating the way for Sheikh Zaydun Zubaidi, the sheikh of the Zubaidi tribes. The fraud crimes in which they participated after the people of the hills reported them and the last victims of Saadi's promises were released.
A short story written by / Mahmoud Hassan Farghaly
Member of the Writers Union
Member of the Syndicate of Film Professions
mahmoudhassanfarghaly@yahoo.com
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Wells of Tell Hanin
From Republic Street, first Faisal
Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets
Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers
and drugs
Wells of Tell Hanin
The water wells dried up in Tell Hanin, between the Lesser Desert and the Central Desert, which do not belong administratively to either of them, and are not connected to urban areas by the permanent camel journeys to and from the nearest cities, which are about three hundred kilometers away.
Camels take seven full days to reach Tel Hanin, carrying a drinking water cup. They set off twelve days ago, and there are two days left until their arrival.
The butcher of Abu Zuweila transferred his hundred camels to transporting water from the towns to Tal Hunayn, and left the transportation of goods to the small porters, and began to impose his conditions, which stipulate that each of the people of the hill pay a third of his income in return for his share of water.
The people of the hill accepted the condition and allocated the rest of the income shares to Dumah al-Farhakli, the grain merchant, so that they would take from his silos what they needed for the women to grind with a mill in their tents. They refrained from buying and were content with the fuel of tree wood and palm trees, which satanically grow in the hill. Naeem Abu Fruwah the scavenger also left after dispensing with his services due to the lack of leftovers that he used to sort and recycle to sell at the cheapest price. The nakedness, and Youssef Al-Nimr, the barber of the hill, left carrying his medicine after the epidemics spread.
The only book closed its doors, and the parents gave up teaching their children to read and write. The people of the hill confined themselves to their homes, so the porters stopped working.. The thirteenth day of the departure of Abel Abu Zweila, and the people of the hill ran out of water, and thirst reached its end, so the children were about to perish.
The people of the hill gathered around the tent of Jazan Abu Zuweila, who still had a hundred skins of water in his store. .
Jazzan began bargaining with them about tents, but he was not accepted. He said: You have to wait for the camels, and they will come the day after tomorrow.
But the little ones will die.
- And what is my fault?
- You have water.
- I defend it with the blood of my heart.
The people of the hill revolted against Jazzan and stormed the water store, and each one of them carried his water-skin, so Jazzan fell dead, mourning his wealth, and the people of the hill inherited what Jazzan left, the only one who had no heir because it was cut from a tree, as the people of the hill say, and the hundred camels returned to distribute to them and save them from death, disease and loss
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