أحمد عبدالله إسماعيل

يبحث الرجل بكل ما أوتي من أمل، وقد قرر قضاء ما تبقى من عمره مستمراً في التنقيب. يُمسك بأدوات الحفر مؤمناً أنّه سيصل لهدفه حتمًا، لكنه يشعر بأنّ الوقت قد حان ليجلس قليلاً يلتقط الأنفاس. شعر بالحزن بعد قضاء كل هذا الوقت في الحفر دون الوصول إلى شيء، سمع أصوات انهيارات قريبة لكنها لم تمنعه من إكمال...

تم اصطحابه في سيارة معصوب العينين إلى مكان التحقيق، سرد كل ما حدث، فتم وضع خطة دقيقة مُحكمة للقبض على شريف الفولي متلبسًا وبجميع الأدلة الممكنة. قبل بضعة أشهر، نشر إعلانًا عن حاجته إلى حديثي التخرج للعمل مندوبين لشركة السياحة. أقنعهم بسهولة السفر لأوروبا؛ وجاء الكثير من راغبي السفر، لكن مندوب...

Happiness masks I sat with my mobile phone, my hateful companion, my prisoner who enslaved me. I became unable to leave it despite my certainty that he had kidnapped me from my peaceful life. Do I believe what my eyes see?! I meet my best friends by chance?? They are my school friends. The...

I go to the spice shop to buy some household necessities, on a fine spring morning. I wait until the seller has finished with the women’s orders first. The fewer women are, the more the place is crowded with them again, so I asked him boredly: -Do you have anything I can pass the time reading...

يقال عن الحلم: حلم يحلم إذا رأى في المنام، وحلم به وحلم عنه وتحلم عنه: رأى له رؤيا أو رآه في النوم، بالضروورة هناك ارتباط بين (الحلم والرؤيا) بل إن الدلالات اللغوية للحلم والرؤيا واحدة إلا أن التمييز قد يقع بين الرؤيا والحلم وفق ما قدمه سعيد يقطين من كون الرؤيا الصادقة لها دلالة؛ فهي إذن (نص)،...

Two horses bet She felt dared in front of him and impatiently said unexpectedly: -I want to drink the coffee mixed with milk you make! He shrugged his shoulders, then stood silent as if he was unconscious. She added: - I remember that in the first days of marriage, with all love, how you made...

Sweet spirit Before dawn, in the room whose walls were decorated with coronation pictures over many successive years, the elderly father advised his son who had been worried all night with eyes tired of staying up late wearing a red sporting t-shirt. He sat in bed with his head lowered between...

Chat at the café I didn’t use to go to cafés, but recently I got used to sitting there every morning drinking coffee before work. On a cloudy winter day, signs of uniqueness appeared on her bright face while helping her only son manage the café. The effect of time was clearly visible on her...

A deadly dream In the spacious, luxurious building whose entrance is decorated with a marble sign that says “General Yamen Al-Sayed’s Villa,” I sat alone on a sunny morning recalling my memories as I have done every day since I retired. I ended up thinking about a case that occurred three...

Darwish I dreamed of a man walking alone with dignity, on the morning of a day when flowers were blooming, with hopeful eyes. He cursing selfishness saying that he was only afraid of our dispersion after his death. He was observing my looks. Then he begged me to take care of my older brother...

The worst choice They raced to transfer her possessions. They were all out of conscience. No difference, the ascetic and the immoral are alike, throwing their breath into a frantic race carrying happiness and misery. She was astonished to see this pious in the middle of a gang of oppressors...

Friend request A few hours ago, I accepted a friend request on Facebook. I sent the new friend a picture of roses, so she showered me with a barrage of messages thanking me for accepting her friendship. She claimed that she was a sergeant in the US Army, part of the international peacekeeping...

The boy's mother They all turned their backs to that boy who was barefoot, wearing a dirty robe wrapping a white shawl around his thin neck and holding his wooden stick in his little hands jumping high. Dust flies on the ground covered with rice straw. He jumps again as if he were a missile...

Questions crowded into his mind. He smiled without commenting on his wife’s inquiries: "What is this? Shall we go back to your village?" It delighted his heart, with trembling lover who saw his beloved after longing, the smell of the streets of that village that he missed so much and its...

Seeing him, even by chance on the way to school or a prayer, was enough to please you for the rest of the day and perhaps for months. Whenever my eyes embraced his facial traits, peace descended upon me and time took me back to the days I regretted missing. I wish days could speak and reveal how...