The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar

Author:Osama Alomar
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811225830
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2017-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

Barbed Wire

Samir, a child not yet seven years old, was completely astounded at the behavior of his father, the famous writer who sat at his desk writing in a yellow notebook, the marks of annoyance written plainly on his face. Every now and again he would tear up the pages angrily and throw them into the wastepaper basket. This gesture was repeated many times until, unable to take it any longer, he threw the notebook far away and went off to sleep, muttering unintelligibly. Samir immediately tiptoed from the living room to the office where the wastepaper basket was. He pulled from it a piece of paper and uncrumpled it. He saw lines of barbed wire and massacred words from which blood flowed like rivers. The survivors writhed about, letting forth nightmarish cries of anguish. The child stood shocked. He threw the paper to the ground and ran to his room. He hid beneath the blanket, trembling at the terrible volcano that had erupted in his face.

Since that day, he feels great compassion for words and only inscribes them on paper completely free of barbed wire.

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