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Areesh stallion

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

Areesh stallion

Reem Al-Jabalawi removes Al-Arish from the sides of her old stallion, after he decided not to take another step from the weight of the fruit boxes that Reem carried to catch up with the arrival of the tribesmen to buy most of their needs from the Saturday market in the central desert oasis.

Reem's stallion falls from exhaustion, so the onlookers imagine his loss of life, so the passers-by lament his condition and curse the old and modern fathers of Reem, so she does not pay attention to the continued lifting of the arish from the sides of the stubborn stallion, and insists on kicking him, so the curse of her fathers increases, and a hundred tribesmen declare their solidarity with the stallion, and they will complain Reem at the headquarters of the Animal Welfare Society Nearby in Hatra, 500 meters away from the place where the poor stallion was killed. .

Reem, her daughter, Selwiya, refrained from approaching the stallion until he returned to a standing position.

Selwiya fears for her mother, from the association's punishment, which extends to years and years of imprisonment.

Reem orders Selwiya to help lift the heavy arish and keep him away from the back of the stallion, and they start moving the wooden cart, the chariot of her father, Abdou Gharabwe, who is coming from the depths of the oasis in the middle of the small desert, to escape from his father’s revenge and the pursuit of the gypsies of Jevina for him, after his mother insisted that he take him without his younger brothers, so he fled And his lover, Reem, the daughter of Rafai al-Jabalawi, the sheikh of his tribe, and they settled in the heart of the central desert oasis to sell fruits on his cart. Abdo Arabawi became addicted to emulsifying small opium cloves until he became bones without flesh, and he only saw his eyes steadfastly protruding, looking at the depth of the small oasis, his motherland. After that, Reem decided to She bears spending on him and his condition, and her five daughters, Salwiya, May, Nora, Mona, and Farida.

Selwiya screams at her four sisters to run to her, and the six begin to move the heavy carrow back so that they can take it away from the dead body of the stallion, according to the statements of all the witnesses to his killing, and their insistence on accusing Reem Al-Jabalawi before the Committee of the Animal Welfare Association, which will be formed within the next four hours and come to arrest Reem The culprit and the removal of the corpse from the path of passers-by in preparation for transporting it in the red animal honoring car that the association will send.

Reem Bakaro Abdou Arabawi settles in front of the door of the tent of the sheikh of the market and begins to sell yellow, green and red apples, each according to its price and according to the segment of the buyer and its richness or lack thereof.

Abdo Gharabou's five daughters continue to bag the weights, excluding the damaged apples and throwing them in front of the mouth of the stubborn stallion who insists on not moving.

The market pioneers' departure time is approaching, and Reem's bag is filled with cash.

A convoy of the Society for Animal Welfare appears from a distance, and the heads of the employees who filed a complaint against Reem Al-Gablawy appear through its windows. The bodies of her daughters shudder, fearing for their mother from the years of imprisonment that await her after considering the case of the killing of the stallion. .

Reem advances to the bottom of the carrow's perch and takes out a bunch of alfalfa from the cloth bag and wipes her sweat with it.

  .. He sticks out his tongue to pick up the sticks of clover passing by Reem, to lick her sweet sweat.

The heads of the employees looking out from the car windows of the Compassionate Lives Association's convoy begin to return to the interior, and their hands fall to their side.

.. The knees settle and the charge of false communication is directed to the hundred of the complainants against Reem Al-Jabalawi, and thanks are directed to Reem, the animal lover and lover of him, who keeps feeding him herself when she is alone with him without her daughters, when his servant’s snoring rises. .

The committee leaves for the five girls to sing and return to the al-Areesh with Reem al-Jabalawi on either side of the back of the stallion, which has come to life as he smells the scent of clover dewed by the sweat of Reem al-Jabalawi, whom he loves.

Reem's ride begins on the journey back to Abdo Gharabou, who is settled in his tent, waiting for the head of the small opium pin that Reem will bring from the nearest drug seller on her way, and insert it into the cloth bag for Abdo to emulsify. The wooden cart. .

 

  A short story written by / Mahmoud Hassan Farghaly

Member of the Writers Union

Member of the Syndicate of Film Professions

mahmoudhassanfarghaly@gmail.com

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