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Oath of Naim

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

Oath of Naim

Naeem Walad Hanaw Al-Asi stood swearing.. threatening and threatening the people of Tal Qafir Al-Ghajar not to provide them with even one water bottle if they did not obey his orders to reduce consumption rates during the years of drought that raised their shaggy heads over the three deserts.. The workers spread out, each of them holding his tentacle, which he placed his tip in front of the sand And the other side sticks his ear, and he keeps hearing and hearing, and the beeping continues until they failed to locate an old water well that was covered with sand a long time ago or near under the ground.

The old man, the chief foreman, called the residents of the hundred hills that he put to the test and ordered them to reduce their consumption of water and not to go to the bathrooms until further notice. The bodies of the workers scattered in the stomachs of the pits are scattered along the paths, so they run, climbing the sandy walls that they made adjacent to all the pits.

The chief water-carrier decides to carry out his threat for three days so that he can control his workers so that they do not leave their work sites.. The workers return to continue hearing the hum resulting from the seepage of water below the layers of the deserts.. The zen is released to the ears of all the workers who carry the sensors, causing them to become confused and unable to accurately determine .

Each worker abandons his tentacle and places his ear close to the sand of the hills designated for him. Each worker turns a circle inward until the zero point touches, so that a drop of water does not pass through any of the giant pipes that pour into huge barrels that feed the three desert hills.

The journey of the cutting teams back to the main drilling sites begins, so that the chief worker assigns each of them another task so that they can return to practicing their work in opening the valves, if the great sheikh decides to do so.

The children scream in all the tents out of extreme thirst, and the mothers’ voices grow louder, threatening and then violent, to stop the children from crying. His voice is heard through the loudspeakers spread across the paths of the hundred hills, and threatens again to extend the cut-off period from three days to five, and it will increase if the women and their young do not stop disrupting the duties of the ears of the listening workers. Then the old foreman issues a decision to bury the sensors next to the corroded rusty pipes so that they become infected and fade away so that no one dares to mock his workers and their sensitive ears.

The young children and their mothers obey the old man’s orders, so they remain silent so that the listening workers continue their work to no avail. Water springs and wells.

The voice of the old foreman is lost amid the cheers of children and mothers, and his threat is useless, so the rushing water leaks from inside the wells and springs until the hills drown, with the old Naim Weld Hanaw Al-Assi continuing his threat of cutting off, which took his way to fading and silence.

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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