AN ANTHOLOGY OF
MOROCCAN NEW SHORT STORY, VOLUME 3
The Rain In The Garden
-Short
Story-
Written by َ Ezeddine Maazi
Translated by Mohamed Saïd
Raïhani
Little Ismaen
sat down before the weird painting to meditate it.
It was a work by a painter who had
composed a blank space with a black square.
He started to sing.
He turned right and left to see if
anybody cares.
Suddenly, he had a prompt wish to get
into the same blank space that the painter has left empty.
A Short-Short Story
entitled “Ismaen’s Painting”
From "Love In Grown-Ups’ Style" in 2006 (Short-Short stories) By Ezeddine Maazi
Ezeddine Maazi,
Moroccan short-story writer
Born in
Author of:
"Diaries Of A School-Master High Up In The Mountain”
(In Two Volumes: 1998-2003)
"Love In Grown-Ups’ Style" in 2006
(Short-Short stories).
With the blue felt
pen, pencil, ruler, cherries and the yellow-covered blank copybook on her
table, the little school girl sharpens both her thinking and her nerves to keep
listening to the school-mistress sitting on her leather chair:
-
“Period of plastic arts for third-class elementary pupils. We will learn how
to draw clouds, rainfall, the formation of ponds and swamps with incineration
using colour pencils”...
The brilliant girl
sharpens the pencil and leans forwards to draw line after line closed circles,
periods, curved forms, trees, fruits... alternatively colouring with the colour
pencils and sharpening them one by one.
High
above, lies the vast blue sea and the rest of the painting a question mark. She
was painting what was running around in her mind.
There
stands the school-mistress next to the blackboard to
explain the techniques before
pacing again between the
rows to examine her pupils’ works.
On
paper, it was rained so hard that the
little girl turned so sad. Her painting was stained with her dropping tears.
She felt sorry for the demolition of the houses, the collapse of the buildings
and the scattering of the flowers
in the garden...
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* The writer, Ezeddine Maazi,
is a Moroccan 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).
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