AN ANTHOLOGY OF MOROCCAN NEW SHORT STORY, VOLUME 2
Virtual Lover
-Short
Story-
Written by Abdelhamid El Gharbaoui
Translated by Mohamed Saïd
Raïhani
" He said:
« Here I am, at last, with the girl I have always
been dreaming of as a partner »…
She said:
«This is the young man I have always been dreaming of
as partner »…
They carried on until they felt the necessity of each
of each one to the other and they began talking about engagement and marriage.
Once, while chatting, she told him:
« I am coming to meet you »."
Abdel Hamid Gharbaoui
Moroccan short-story Writer
Born in
Author of :
« About That Day I Am Telling » short stories 1988
«
« Naked Being » short stories in 1994
«
« Sign Of Disappointment » novel in 1998
« Ayman & The snake » short stories in 1996
« Shama » short stories, 2005
«
« Scent, Coat & Blood » short stories in 2005
« The Lady In The Blue Dream » novel in 2005
« Alchemist » novel
by Paolo Coelho (translated) in 2005
She wondered as she was making herself ready for the anticipated encounter…
He wondered as he thought at the first word that would come to his mind before been told in her presence…
(How can two people many miles away from each other have their heart beating with love only via « chatting » on the internet? »
Both of them attributed it to Destiny…
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He has undergone, previously, an unsuccessful relationship…
She waits for nothing but the moment when the one who gave her up will declare their divorce…
Both virtual lovers, at a specific time, decided to keep secret their old love affairs between the folds of their heart and adopt a pseudonym rather than their real names just for a while to give the new relationship a chance to succeed ?
Perhaps…
Perhaps to give their past a chance to fade away…
Past means sadness and boredom. It was better to bury it forever.
She chose the pseudonym of «Salwa » and during the «chat», she introduced herself as: cultivated, pious, beautiful and keen on reading…
He chose the pseudonym of «Fouad» and during the «chat»,he introduced himself as : cultivated, pious, beautiful and keen on reading…
They kept on chatting and hovering overhead in their pinkish dreams.
He said:
« Here I am, at last, with the girl I have always been dreaming of as a partner »…
She said:
«This is the young man I have always been dreaming of as partner »…
They carried on until they felt the necessity of each of each one to the other and they began talking about engagement and marriage.
Once, while chatting, she told him:
« I am coming to meet you ».
They consented to meet in a public plaza in the middle of which there is a large fountain attracting many visitors to enjoy the colored water lines rising high above accompanied by the well-known Arabian songs…
She informed him that she would be wearing a black coat on a blue dress…
He told her that he would be wearing a white woolen pullover and a pair of blue jeans…
Finally, there came the day that they have so passionately been waiting for…
She was standing near the fountain meditating the threads of its colored water bursting up in strong gushes and falling again yielding to gravity before repeating the rise-and-fall movement to the rhythm of Oum Koulthoum's «Can You Remember?»
She was standing with her back to the rest of people as if to hide her face from the remaining visitors in the plaza…
There he came…
There she is with the blue dress and the black coat. That is his love.
He got closer rand closer from her and in a tremulous voice, he whispered:
«Salwa!»
She would not have answered the call, had she not remembered that «Salwa» was the brand-new name she coined for herself…
She turned around…
And when…
He was nobody but…
The one who gave her up. The one whom she has been waiting for to declare solemnly their divorce.
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The
Writer, Abdel Hamid Gharbaoui, Moroccan short-story Writer, born in
* The translator, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani, is a Moroccan translator, scholar
& short-story writer, born on December 23rd
* "Virtual Lover" is the eleventh 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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