MOHAMED SAID RAIHANI’S GUIDELINE TO
MOROCCAN SHORT-SHORT STORY
Hamid Rakkata
Short-Short
Stories
Translated by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani
-1-
Pirates
He won all his
battles in the heart of the seas and mountains but lost his battle with the
woman who sailed suddenly inside him.
-2-
Informer
From behind his
dark glasses, the informer, sitting in the far-away corner of the café looking
straight on the boulevard and counting people’s breaths, believed himself
unknown and unseen by the people passing by while children in the other corner
of the street were winking at one another and jeering at the way he was seated
and the unbuttoned trousers he exposed to the passers-by.
-3-
Apple-Girl
In his
absent-mindedness under the old apple-tree, she was courting him.
A small apple fell
right down on his heart.
He jumped out of
his abstraction and ran happily to take it.
She left him,
seizing her young couple of apples feeling so sorry for the stupidity of men
and the futility of all-seasonal fruits.
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Hamid Rakkata is a Moroccan short-
short story writer, born in Khénifra City, Morocco. He published in Arabic "Butterfly Tears" (Short-Short Stories) in 2010 …
SAMPLES OF
MOROCCAN CONTEMPORARY SHORT-SHORT STORY
SAMPLES OF
MOHAMED SAID RAIHANI’S SHORT-SHORT STORY
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Ghandi Forever |
Eskimo Law |
Order of Cheating |
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Eskimo Law |
Order of Cheating |
King Edward Lover |
Love & Marriage |
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The Fifth Gender |
The Man & The Dog |
Humiliation |
Nobody Sees Me! |
Apocalypse, Now! |