AN ANTHOLOGY OF
MOROCCAN NEW SHORT STORY, VOLUME 2
Love On The Beach
-Short Story-
Written by Hicham Harrak
Translated by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani
“Nothing can raise us to the
skies, nothing but Love.”
Hicham Harrak
Moroccan
short-story writer
author of:
"Everyday Market"
(Short Stories), 2004
She shoots her words
out so hysterically that he turned back to her as if bumped against an iron wall.
Temperature inside her chest exceeds that in mid-August…
He sits down on a rock
far from humans except for the foreigner painting on the beach and his wife
searching for things that her husband could not identify saying to himself: “They
may be oysters”…
She goes back to her
room to watch an Arabian serial and feels sad for the distressing outcome that
has befallen the protagonist, Madeeha, left by her knight who travelled
away to get married to a rich old woman in a far-away land…
He contemplates the sea
in a terrible silence with his eye-balls popping out of his skull. Snakes,
scorpions and sharks jump in and out in the screen of his eye-balls. No-one
knows if he was angry with anything or that he was engaged in a cold war against
the sea.
At last, she smiles as
she comes to think of forgiving him.
At last, he smiles as
he comes to think of writing her a letter of appology for what he has done in
that damned day.
She received the letter
and decided to go to see him…
Again, he sits down on
the rock far from people. In his eyes' screen, snakes scorpions and sharks jump
in and out until he saw her coming.
She comes along to him
with a broad smile. She sits next to him trying to keep her hair tidy.
He insisted on fulfilling
his request.
She finds that immoral…
He finds it quite moral
as nobody is there…
She submits, at last,
and, at a specific time, she utters a shriek that echoes everywhere
He stands up in panic,
looking left and right. He runs, runs, runs…
He has deflowered her.
He decides to sail
across the sea to dodge people’s gossip and sarcasm.
If done, he will never
come back again.
He murmurs to himself
that if he had a steady job and an independent home, he would never have left
her to her painful destiny all alone…
He was reassuring
himself with these words when the rowing-boat carrying him to the other shore
capsized, leaving him all alone to the sea.
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* The writer, Hicham Harrak,
is a Moroccan short-story writer, author of: "Everyday
Market" (Short Stories) 2004
*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).
* "Love On The Beach" is the fifteenth
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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