Page 8 - Issue 50

It pitied him, and comforted him saying, "What a poor boy... you
became an orphan at a young age... becoming bound to
responsibility without fully growing.”
He was touched by its speech and he listened to its advice... And
then asked it immediately: “But what did you want from Uncle
Saleh?”
It smiled: "Uncle Saleh did me a favor, and I wanted to give
back...
He was impressed: “What favor does a fisherman offer to his
prey?”
Pointing at the sea, it said, "There, a shark attacked me, hit me
and almost killed me... And then I was carrying my kids in my
guts...”
He looked at it, saying, "My father was so brave as to tackle a
predatory fish...”
She shook her head in agreement: “From this day, I am grateful
to him, and I want to pay him back...”
He replied: “No need, Goodbye. Nice to meet you and you can
go back to your kids.”
Anyways, it took something out of its mouth and said, "This is
what I was going to give to your father, and now its's yours.”
He looked at a white pearl shining in the sunlight, and said, "But
He opened his eyes, looked at the window eager, he found the I am taking a price for his favor”
night fading away, and the dawn rising, and the birds chirping, it interrupted him while heading to sea: “Don't they say do good
so he got off, dusted himself off and got ready. and throw it at sea. i.e. don’t wait for something in return?"
By the sea, cannons were fired in celebration of Eid, mosques He nodded his head in agreement.
began to call for prayers, and people rushed towards it. It said at last: “Well, there favors that are payed back with
He looked at his father's cupboard, thought to open it, found his pearls, and others that get lost in sea.”
blue sea-colored shirt, wore it and looked in the mirror,
remembering that his father was wearing it while going
hunting... Here he thought to take fishing gadgets and try,
hoping to get fortunate.
He went to the sea, the atmosphere was lovely, the waves were
still, the wind was quiet, he raised his hands to the sky praying,
threw his fishing rod, and it is only a moment, he feel its weight
getting heavier while trying to lift it up, it did not work, so he
tied the other end to a rock ... And here's a big fish.
He immediately hooked it off, put it in a box next to him, until
he threw back the beacon, and here the fish shouted: wait... I
threw myself in the crosshairs...
He wondered, "Why?" And does anyone throw themselves to
death?
It said, "I saw you from afar. Thought you were Uncle Saleh”
He wondered again: “What do you want from uncle Saleh?
It re-approached the sea, and said, "it’s none of your business"
He then replied: "Wait... Uncle Saleh is my father and this shirt I
am wearing is his”...
So, she looked at him, and said, "Yeah, you look like him...” and
then wondered: "Where is he? I've been waiting for him for a
while and he hasn't come”.
He looked at her in sadness, with tears in his eyes, and said in an
aching voice: he had died about a year ago, then my mother
followed...