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Lemon Hind Saadeh

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

Lemon Hind Saadeh

The youngsters pick the fruits from Hind Saadeh’s lemons, and the thorns bleed their hands. Awad Shalaby, the guard of the lemon trees in Hind Saadeh’s oasis, chases them away and keeps cursing their parents, so that the six Hind Saadeh, the owner of the oasis and whom she inherited with five hundred lemon trees inherited, would be pleased with him.

Hind looks from the door of her tent sadly at the broken branches of the lemon tree and orders Awwad to cut them down so that she does not remember her the first time she clung to the branch of the long lemon tree. The oasis and the lemon trees, who decided to marry her two years after that incident, Abdou al-Ghajar, the blacksmith, broke her father's mind with joy, and he was about to go mad with her mother, Saada al-Manadihi. .

The winds of Al-Khamseen almost uprooted the lemon tree from its roots, so Hind closed the entrances to her tent against the wind, so that Hefzy Hadayty departed in peace and quiet, bidding farewell to Hind Saadeh, recommending to her that he left him and bequeathed to his three sisters, Hayat and Rushdia, and greeted the few resourceful people as stated in his will.

I fell in love with the three beautiful little sisters who were still a girl, so Hefzy was unable to enter her.. The lemon tree resisted the wind and swayed left and right, and the youngest of Hefzy’s sisters, Tahia, could not resist poverty after Hind Saadeh neglected her and her two sisters, so she sold the last piece of gold she had and left. To join her two sisters and her brother.

Hind decided to turn a fifth of the oasis into an artificial lake that derives its water from the five wells that he inherited from my gift after the death of her mother and father. some rest .

Hind sucks her lips as she looks at the lemon trees that mediate the entrance to the oasis, blocking the path of the entrants, so they turn right or left to Hind Saadeh's tent in Hefzi Hadayati Oasis, where she receives her guests. Wrinkles covered her face.

Hind is generous to the sentinel, Awad Shalaby, to bring her the youngest of the gypsy girls, so he does not succeed, so she inflames his back with her endless curses day and night. Which was known among the sons of the Oasis Lemon Hind Saadeh.

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A short story by / Mahmoud Hassan Farghaly

Member of the Writers Union

Member of the Syndicate of Film Professions

mahmoudhassanfarghaly@yahoo.com

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