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FLASH FICTION 𝒃𝒚 Nasser Alshaikhahmed

The Alley’s Corner 

The Alley’s Corner 

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The sunset marks the end of the day and celebrates the night. Fragrant breezes emanate from tall trees, hanging their branches with fruits in front of the wall of one of the neighbor’s houses. Their fragrance scent surrounds him, fills him and fills the road. The twilight, with the beauty of its colors, draws some boyhood dreams in his imagination with some temptations that make him desire so many things. He spots charm passing by in the narrow aisles. The way she walked triggered the cursed desire that ran inside him. She gave him a sneaky look. Just a little while ago before that happened he was just an ordinary teenage sitting on the bench with his companions in the alley’s corner, as usual, now he thinks of inventing a way to get her. What a blazing idea and a brilliant victory he would be proud of if he did, but again that would be a great mistake he told himself: it is also a sin and a sin that people don’t forgive. He remembered he once heard a story thirty years ago about a beautiful kinky woman like her who reeked of coquetry, and she was like the idol of the neighborhood who disgraced a well-established gentleman and ruined his reputation and his life.

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(Self-translation from ARABIC)

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The sunset marks the end of the day and celebrates the night. Fragrant breezes emanate from tall trees, hanging their branches with fruits in front of the wall of one of the neighbor’s houses. Their fragrance scent surrounds him, fills him and fills the road. The twilight, with the beauty of its colors, draws some boyhood dreams in his imagination with some temptations that make him desire so many things. He spots charm passing by in the narrow aisles. The way she walked triggered the cursed desire that ran inside him. She gave him a sneaky look. Just a little while ago before that happened he was just an ordinary teenage sitting on the bench with his companions in the alley’s corner, as usual, now he thinks of inventing a way to get her. What a blazing idea and a brilliant victory he would be proud of if he did, but again that would be a great mistake he told himself: it is also a sin and a sin that people don’t forgive. He remembered he once heard a story thirty years ago about a beautiful kinky woman like her who reeked of coquetry, and she was like the idol of the neighborhood who disgraced a well-established gentleman and ruined his reputation and his life.

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(Self-translation from ARABIC)

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  • 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. He 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 &𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵;𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘴&𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵” (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. He 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.

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Haseeb
1 month ago

Excellent

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