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Urgent Clarification

Details: Category: General Articles; Created on 11 March 2011; Last Updated on 19 May 2012; Written by Hayat Alyaqout; Hits: 38

توضيح عاجل:

نُشرت مقالة باسمي في العدد الأخير من "نشرة جمعية المكتبات المتخصصة" نتجة خطأ تحريري، والمقالة ليست لي بل لزميلة أخرى. كنت قد أرسلت مقالة مختلفة. هذا للتوضيح والتنويه ولإبراء الذمة من أية مسؤولية قانونية أو أدبية تنشأ عن ذلك.

Urgent Clarification:

An article was published on the latest issue of "SLA Newsletter" under my name. I did not write this article, I sent them a different one article. Using my name for his articles has been a mistake of the magazine. I thus disclaim any moral or legal responsibility for what happened.

A Black Vertical Cloud (Short Story)

Details: Category: Short Stories; Created on 07 January 2011; Last Updated on 19 May 2012; Written by Hayat Alyaqout; Hits: 71

A black vertical cloud, that's how they see me. A talking walking dark black cloud, black all year round.

I contemplate June's clear sky, hoping for salvation. I descend the usual three yellow steps of the bus, take exactly 11 heavy steps to reach John's grocery shop.

"Why doesn't he get someone to help him with the bagging?" I often wonder. Someone who would not insist on putting my groceries in black bags claiming that he ran out of the other bags today, someone who tells me that I can't have my fabric environment-friendly bag with me inside his shop, someone who would talk to me and make some eye contact.

Why don't I find another place to shop? I don't know! I guess I'm too tired and lazy to take extra steps, or too self-sorry to face a worse version of John somewhere else.

I'm now used to it, that sob that tethers my throat is not there anymore, I don't want to cry. What happens is a common place now. Well, he even almost smiled when I told him happy birthday.

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