Aqila

By: Ahmed Yousef Aqila 1 When I was a child I listened to the radio announcer saying before the Sultan’s speech “whenever the Sultan speaks, water springs gush, the land becomes green, and palm trees yield dates”, so I prayed longevity for the Sultan. 2 When the Sultan began his speech through our old radio, I climbed over the roof and gazed into the field, and palm trees, while my mother carried her bucket searching for the water spring. 3 The Sultan finished his long speech, though the fields remained barren, roamed by sand storms, and my mother’s bucket returned empty, […]

  By:  Ahmed Yousef Aqila   (1) They Fled to the mountains, and chose a deep endless cave to hide. They walked inside a long tunnel for many days… I meant nights, or more accurately a long dark period of time, while touching the walls. They were seven men and the eighth was their dog and the ninth a mobile phone and the tenth a laptop computer. A beam of sun has emerged somwhere from the roof of the cave at the end of the tunnel. (2) His Majesty the King wore a general’s suit; even his subjects were confused what to […]

By: Ahmed Yousef Aqila (1) His eyes were shining in the dark, glowing like embers on the tree top, inspecting lustfully the distracted female cat. When he felt that the moment was suitable, He jumped in the dark void. He grabbed her neck with his teeth. She sent a sharp shriek trying to escape, while his fire was raging. (2) The scream burst into all the houses. Exposing that frantic moment. The woman laying beside her husband raised her head. She felt a delicious shiver while she was listening to the screaming female. She looked to her husband who gave […]