The waterfall, authored by Salman Al Salman

In the middle of a café teeming with unknown faces and fleeting smiles, the protagonist sits immersed in his great questions: why did his life end up in this routine? And why does the feeling of loneliness chase him like a shadow that never leaves? Among the celebration seats, the talk of strangers, and the smile of a mysterious old driver, a different journey begins; a journey that makes the boundaries between reality and illusion so vague that it confuses the mind and provokes the heart. He finds himself in front of a mysterious woman called "Marie," her presence awakening feelings he had never known before, but she disappears as suddenly as she appeared: suddenly, and without a trace. And with every attempt to find her, he discovers that what he is experiencing may not be reality as he perceives... but a reflection of a deeper loneliness that is unbearable. The waterfall is not just a story of love and loss, but a mirror to a life we all live: where loneliness meets longing, hope meets disappointment, and where falling from the peak of a simple moment to the depths of heavy existential questions drags us. It is a novel about the human being when he becomes a stranger to the world and to himself, searching for meaning in every glance, in every encounter, and in every brokenness... until he discovers that the real waterfall flows within him.