Category: short story
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Outside My Window
During burning Beirut summer days, I have acquired the habit of staring out the window from the 9th floor, the adjacent rooftops and nearby windows open up as a grid of life, on the nearby building an umbrella and chairs were set between the water tanks making the perfect spot for a summer…
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A Gift in a Shoebox
Eager faces, dim smiles, waiting, with eyes focused on two huge boxes placed in-front of the green board. Until the moment, the teacher says, “one by one you can come and pick one”. The drift of the tiny creatures, start moving one by one; boys on one side picking a…
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Happy Side
Somehow, he managed to escape the crowd, the loud laughter, the weird conversations, and found himself on the road. He walked down with a backpack on his back, earphones in his ears, with the loudest music there to block the sounds of the outer world. He walked for a while…
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Bench of Strangers
Three hours break between sessions and a book to read means that she will have to find me a seat in the library. Although, it was cold just the idea of locking herself in a closed place for three hours sounded unbearable. After a short walk, she found herself at…
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Afternoon Walks
It’s those walks on this island “Venice”, the island that looks like nothing but itself. Those walks take me back to the past and to memories I didn’t even know I have. From that pink flower that looks the same as the one we used to have in front of…
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The only difference is the Sounds
From Kafar rouman to Venice Theoretically speaking we are always considered locked up. We always seek for freedom, we always consider ourselves prisoned, our souls trapped within our bodies, and bounded by our abilities and limitations. When it comes to being locked down, restricted from leaving our homes and forced…
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Land of Contradictions
It doesn’t matter how small Lebanon is, being a country that is barely shown on the world map, still as small as this land in the whole globe, it happens to hide as many diversities and contradictions as possible. This small land attracts tourists for its history, they come here…
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