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
* "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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