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Bassabis Market

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

Bassabis Market

The market goers gather around a hybrid and quickly turn their faces away with the arrival of the pure species carrier to pick it up from the very high auction, as the price of one of this species is about ten thousand dirhams, and the buyers did not stingy, so they rush to the auction box to pay the price, and what are the few hours until the buyer earns a thousand or two thousand upon receiving the one to the stores Urban.

The saliva of the people of pure blood flows over the hybrid, and the ten strongest males among them escape chasing it until they settle in the Great Bsisa cemetery in the Lesser Desert, in which the elderly Roma elders are buried. clamoring for it.

Each merchant holds his dog's chain, and Ragab Abdel Sattar Ibn Abdel Sattar Bikya, who is not yet ten years old, returns with the crossbreed dog that he picked up from the Al-Arawash trail yesterday while he was on his tour with his father. To fifteen thousand dirhams, and everyone is still racing to get it until the price settled on seventeen.

Abd al-Sattar left what was offered from Bekiya for sale and hurried to the crowds to check on his son Ragab. He was surprised by the door of al-Saad, opening his arms for him, his wife Zakiah, and his ten children, who answered his call from the middle of the market to protect the treasure that fell on them from Darb al-Arwash, which will transfer them from their tent in the great cemetery to a larger tent in Uhud. The paths of the tribes far from the tents of the nomadic gypsies in exchange for five thousand, and his wife will hide the rest of the amount between skin and flesh so that they can live from it in the days of depression.

The family received the price of the stray dog, and the hybrid was transferred to the largest store in the city, so that all males of pure breeds flocked to it.

 

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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