FICTION
Arabic Literature / Arabic Fiction
FLASH FICTION
Blame It on the Wind
by Nasser Alshaikhahmed
(Translated from Arabic)
Looking at the sky while the sun was preparing to fade into the twilight with red tears filling out the details of that day. She remembered the day the fleet returned, the squad of the returning gulls. From the resurrection that occurred in the middle of the day, surprisingly, and among them there was not the face of her lover.
Heart was burning with grief, absent-minded staring above. The bitterness of the tear in her eyeballs was a fire cooked and the moaning softly yearning in her heart. Boundaries with the earth looked clay and water flaccid, swallowing her heavily grieved feet. His picture reappeared to her in the last scene, which brought them together; that late afternoon when he handed her his watch with a smile, telling her, we shall meet when I return from sailing.
She realized by then it was absence, nothing but the eternal separation, she yelled hysterically and excessively and went on to blame it on the wind of plating a conspiracy against their love and cursing the roads with a pain in her heart.
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(Self-translation from ARABIC)
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Nasser Alshaikhahmed
A Saudi Arabian bilingual poet and short story writer, who writes in Arabic and English. He went to school at Sonoma State University in California, USA. Although his field of study is far from literature but his soul is immersed in poetry and writing.
Work:
Nasser Alshaikhahmed has published one poetry book in Arabic “Ara’fa” (in Arabic: العرافة) in 2013 (by Arabian House for Science and Publishing). He has won the second prize " Zheng Nian Cup" China Literally Award, 2023. He has also published one book of poetry in English. He was awarded by the L.A. Seneca International Academic Literary Award On 14.10.2023. He has also accolade from the Italian Academy of Philosophical Arts and Sciences, Bari- Italy.
Nasser Alshaikhahmed is a vigorous member of: 1) All Poetry.com, 2) Soul Asylum Poetry Radio. New York (USA); Poetry Anthologies: 1) Voracious Polyglots-USA, 2) The Quilled ink SOUTH AFRICA, 3) Wheel song Poetry- UK; Online Magazines: 1) Polis Magazino- Greece, 2) ILA Magazine- USA, 3) “Grupo de trabajo de escritores "Juntos por las letras"” (Group Of Writers’ Working Together for Letters & Quotes”), ARGANTINA, 4) www.youtube.com/c/Uddan Television. Nasser Alshaikhahmed has translated from English to Arabic several poetry work for poets from USA, Japan and Australia and published his translation in local journals.
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