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Drowned sweat

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

Drowned sweat

The sweat of Abdo Darwish's fasting pours out in the last half of the month of Tuba in the heart of the waters of the largest wells of the deep Sahara Desert Oasis, as he submerges, floats, and spews water from the mouth and nose.

The lights of the broken stars are damaged inside the head’s eyes, so the focal length is lost to be indefinite, and only the needs of Atiyat al-Shamas, the wife, Aziza, salam al-hama, Adwa, Zaghloul, Eid, Afifi, Shahat, and Rida, the last of the cluster, his children, settle in his mind.

Aziza Salam, the mother-in-law, says: A brick is left for a boy to ride, and there must be heavy clothes for the six children and the wife.

The wife, Atiyat al-Shammas, says: Sadiq Abd al-Jawad, the husband of their neighbor, Mahasin al-Rifili, died as an infidel because he threw himself into the heart of the well after he was unable to pay his debts.

The voices of the six young children overlap, asking Siam Abdo Darwish for their daily expenses, food and drink. water .

Fasting defrauded the big merchants by buying him limited goods on credit, and he sold these goods as soon as he received them to pay off some of his debts, and when he was unable to pay, he returned to the ball to buy on credit and sell at less than the wholesale price, and pay off some of his other debts and leave a small installment for the wife, mother-in-law, and six children, so he becomes unable again, third and fourth. Fifthly, he is chased by merchants and driven by his feet to the waters of the deep well, and when he is in the middle of the distance between the beginning of the well and its end, he climbs to the top of the wall and flies in space to fall, hugging its bottom, then floats, dives, and gargles water from the mouth and nose.

The drowning man's sweat increases until it leads to the overflowing of the well that drowned the oasis of the hill of Ghajar Indians in the Great Desert, and left no trace of the dry land, so he shook hands with the desert, so that his water was lost in the veins of the yellow that screams from the intensity of thirst, and he continues to quench his thirst until he becomes green with the color of the algae that his face bears.. Standing stones The high mountain is in the face of the water, so it cannot cross, so that the drowned person becomes silent and his sweat channels stop flowing.

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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