AN ANTHOLOGY OF
MOROCCAN NEW SHORT STORY, VOLUME 1
Shehrayar’s
Dream
-Short
Story-
Written by Abdennour Driss
Translated
by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani
"Another dream
targeting the dark
Hail!
Dream is that whiteness
blackening the night,
That thirsty desire
Trying to wake up in
me,
That heavenly testimony
Which the river praises
Hail!
I am the dream of a
fish
Predicting
inundation"…
Abdennour Driss
Scholar
& Short-Story Writer
Author
of:
"Women’s
Writings"
-A Study-
2004
"Woman’s
Novel & Reality"
-A Study-
2005
"Taboo
Mythology & Religious Discourse Mechanisms"
-A
Study-
2005
Getting
ready for printing:
"Feminizing
Virility"
-Short
Stories-
The inner gap is as deep as labyrinth whereas the outer clothing tells
about the imprisoned body: He used to sow his masculine name
in his wives’ wombs but was good at nothing but giving birth to females. All
the new bellies would bear him new expectation in ending that crop. The flag of
victory, however, cannot be raised by catastrophe-loving feet obsessed with the
nine scenes which had danced both in the emptiness of the belly and in the
belly of the emptiness. These are the ends that he feels running deeply in his
dry veins coming from no-one knows, bearing shameful masks!
“Cursed is he who gives birth to females!”
“Damnation” is his word to
justify his impotence while cosmetics are women’s way to sneak into his pocket
and organ, giving birth to a non-stop set of females. His poor status has not
killed him. Rather, it might drive him mad or perhaps paralyze him or even
redirect his thinking towards suicide.
Tackling this topic in his daily life will revive the old painful
moments that has never stopped proliferating in his endless questions…
“Cursed is he who gives birth to females!”
That was his echo whenever his salt-filled worries and injuries flow out
in his long journey to salvation through sorcery and magic weeds…
His childhood was a wretched past stamped exclusively for him. He was
the only boy to love dolls. He used to find in this hobby real happiness and
true pleasure. Dolls would stick to his hand and never fall. Memories lay new
bridges towards the past proving that life has not changed. Memories are still
standing against any possible change. Gloom and mud are the distinctive poetic
features still present in children’s hymns playing carelessly with the angles
and sides of the district…
He drowns himself in his night pleasures and never gets sober before
experiencing the butterfly joy… He has such a crazy story with females starting
from his early admiration for dolls and ending with absolute adoration to them
all.
He was sober but the moaning of the glasses made him drunk again. His
looks seemed unsteady, wandering, fluffy, drifting away with the winds of his
song towards the sterility of the
whisper, towards the heart of the scream, towards the menopause that has eaten
his wife’s womb. There is nothing left to do. That is the law of feminity…
“Cursed is he who gives birth to females!”
This is the female’s labyrinth: a singular caravan made especially for
loss and parting. There is no male to inaugurate her salvation from this
never-ending painful memory.
He was lost in the arches of feminine lips juicing his dreams. Now, his
ambitions are redirecting him to his private doctor’s cabinet. He is in such a
hurry to have male dolls and perpetuate the torn-out moments that he is doomed
to have with women tired of vain memories.
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*
The writer, Abdennour Driss, is
a Moroccan scholar & short-story writer ,
born in
*The translator, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani, is a Moroccan translator, scholar & short-story
writer, born on December 23rd 1968 in Ksar El Kébir. He
published in Arabic "The Singularity Will" (A Semiotic Study on First-names) 2001, "Waiting For the Morning" (Short stories) 2003,"Thus Spoke Santa Lugar-Verde" (Short stories) 2005, "The Season Of Migration to Anywhere" (Short stories) 2006, "The Three Keys: Freedom, Dream & Love" (An anthology of Moroccan New Short Story in Three
Volumes) 2006-2007-2008, "The History of Manipulating Professional Contests in
Morocco" (Syndical manifestos in Two Volumes) 2009-2011, "Death of the Author" 2010…
He is getting ready for printing:"Beyond Writing & Reading» (testimonies), "Kais & Juliet" ( Novel) and ""When Photo
Talks" (Photo-Autobiography).
* "Shehrayar’s Dream" is the third narrative
text in the "The
Moroccan Dream",
An Anthology of
Moroccan new short story directed by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani.
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