THE MOROCCAN DREAM

THE ANTHOLOGY OF LOVE

AN ANTHOLOGY OF MOROCCAN NEW SHORT STORY, VOLUME 2

Cupid & Lucifer

-Short Story-

Written by Mohamed Ferri

Translated by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani

"Crumbling a flower in search of its essence is distorting its charm…

Searching for the meaning of love in dictionaries is neutralizing its spell…

Flower is flower and love is love… "

Mohamed Ferri

Moroccan short-story writer

Subject-matter in printing:

ِِ"A Quarter Of A Century In Education"

(An Autobiographical Novel)

"On Digital Grounds"

(Short Stories)

The Devil rubbed His horns and sharpened His spear carefully in readiness for a new day with new victims to be added to His constantly growing quota. He felt proud and satisfied looking at His records full of the stock of hatred and rancour which His would sow in people’s souls and was satisfied with the supplies of the efficient anti-love that has always been successful.

He looked down at the world and felt pleased at the eternal struggle dating back to Abel and Cain. He cried with all his forces: "Come to Evil!" and He darted through the clouds avoiding to see the clear sky the blue colour of which never pleases Him. Blue is clarity and clarity is purity … A terminology that He has purposely removed from his lexicon containing nothing but "Glory".

He wished to see more wars sending up darker clouds of smoke. Only that view works up His appetite for further conquests.

-“Those mortals are stupid. How they like preaching love and good, and rejecting Hatred and Evil!”, He whispered to Himself and cried again:

-“Evil is force … Evil is the origin… weak souls alone take refuge in fake love.”

He carried on sliding down through the clouds, aiming at a weak soul. From afar, He saw Cupid, Angel of love, holding his bow and arrow. The Devil laughed out sarcastically:

-“You, little arrogant child! You’re wrong if you still believe your arrows to open people’s hearts to love!”

Cupid paid no attention to His provocation. The Devil grew angry from Cupid’s indifference. He took up his arrow to shoot him but the angel moved up a little to dodge the arrow. Calmly, Cupid put his arrow in his bow and shoot Him on the chest.

The Devil laughed out derisively watching the arrow coming straight along. He received it with his chest scornfully, believing His eternal character would prevent Him from any harm. In no time, the arrow penetrated His chest and touched His heart. All of a sudden, the Devil felt a pulsation which He has never felt before. He also felt the degree of Evil dwindling more and more inside him. He tried, unconsciously, to feel His horns with his hands but found no trace for them. He turned around but only to find brand-new white wings growing up his back.

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* The writer, Mohamed Ferri, is a Moroccan short-story writer. He is getting ready for printing: ِِ"A Quarter Of A Century In Education" (An Autobiographical Novel) "On Digital Grounds" (Short Stories).

*The translator, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani, is a Moroccan translator, scholar & short-story writer, born on December 23^rd 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).

* "Cupid & Lucifer" is the first narrative text in the "The Anthology Of Love", An Anthology of Moroccan New Short Story, Volume 2, directed by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani.

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This Short Story Is Re-published On the Following Links:

AFNAN	PEARL TREE	WIKIPEDIA
	ALADABIA

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