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Datura Shengi

 

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

Datura Shengi

 

The grass of Datura Shenigi Al-Ghoula grows in the vacant area, which exceeds one hundred acres, behind a hill of vineyards. Its color relaxes the eyes of all the people of the central desert, and it pleases the eyes of cattle, including camels, horses, mules, cows, buffaloes, and donkeys. .

Cattle are addicted to the Datura plant, so their limbs become slack and they become unable to work.

Cattle look at their owners

   .. She hopes for many meals from the beautiful plant

  .. The peasants are not aware of the demand for livestock .. .. .

The mooing of calves rises, so the ears of the people of the oasis are deafened

The neighing of horses and mules increases, and donkeys are unable to bray.

The cattle leave the pens with all their strength to the neighboring paths and paths

  Where the plant trees are planted on the sides, and they keep eating and eating until they are satisfied, so they sleep next to the plant, only to find it when awake, so they do not starve again.

The people of the oasis seek to ask for their sleeping cattle, but you did not answer him

  And it remained the same in terms of relaxation and inability to move. Male horses, camels, cows, buffaloes, and donkeys gave up making love to their females due to their loss of ability. .

The females did not carry their embryos, and their devouring of the beautiful plant increased, like its males, until they became addicted to it.

A month and two months passed in this way until the cattle turned into ghosts, and they fell one after the other.

The responsible authorities issued a decision not to plant the beautiful plant, which led to the disappearance of all the peasants’ livestock, but the Shenigi men who brought the seeds of the plant to the oasis gave the seeds to the senior bandits in the regions who assisted them, and advised them to plant it in secret, away from the eyes, until it dries, so that they give it to their men so that they have control.

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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@gmail.com