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Cotton candy tube

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

Cotton candy tube

Antar, Farhana Schleib's son, turns the hand of the spinning machine and sings: Spinning the strings, sugar, plant, come near, boys, and tell me, "Bring it."

Jalila, the eldest of the daughters of Antar, puts the cotton candy in small bags and ties it with a thin thread and throws it into the box, so that Jamila Bint Antar’s second hand picks it up and gives each little one a bag, so the voice of Hamdia Bint Hanafi Al-Khouli, the mother of the girls, with her loudest voice, becomes louder. The little ones come.

Firdous Bint Hamdiyeh III gives a strong breath with the copper piston of the blazing gas pump under the spinning machine, to be run by Antar, who fulfills the requests of the children.

Ferial, the fourth daughter of Antar, asks about the fate of the stolen butane gas canister, which will relieve them of the smoke and burning gas in front of the entrance to the tent they live in. .

Antar replies sadly: There is no benefit.. Antar used to deduct a small part of the family's income every month, so that Hamdiyeh entered the association with Umm Sayyid al-Dalalah and the women of the neighborhood to collect it in the last month of the association's months. .

Antar has been paying the association's shares for eighty-five consecutive months, over a period of seven years and a month, to be able to buy a small butane gas tube that will relieve them of the coughing caused by the kerosene exhaust that the Wabur releases in abundance.

Antar, the son of Farhana Shaleeb, his wife Hamdiya, and his five daughters lived years of uninterrupted happiness, only to be interrupted by the clever mind of Suleiman Al-Ghajar, the pipe thief, on a rainy night when the family rushed to move the spinning machine to the tent.

The family filed a report for theft at the police station, and Fahima beat Antar’s youngest daughter, Fahima, when she prevented Zaki from carrying the pipe. Zaki left his family’s tent in the neighborhood and fled to Tal Daraghmeh, with his uncle Ata al-Romani, the blacksmith of the hill. Zaki’s father, Zaki’s father, was arrested and released at the police station, and Zaki’s voice rose. He repeats: Spinning girls, plant sugar, come close, boys, and tell me, bring it.. The little ones on the hill say: bring it.

Antar, born Farhana Schleib, begins to deduct the first part of the income in the first month, so that Hamdia Bint Hanafi Al-Khouli participates in the association that Um Sayed Al-Dalalah and the women of the neighborhood will gather, to receive the last number after eight years and a month, so that the family can buy a new tube of spinning girls

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A short story written by / Mahmoud Hassan Farghaly

Member of the Writers Union

Member of the Syndicate of Film Professions

mahmoudhassanfarghaly@yahoo.com

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