Espresso of death, by: Mohammed Al-Dandan

The silence briefly spread its wings for a moment, Abdullah appeared devastated by what he had witnessed from his companion, and the shocks continued to hit him one after another. He approached his friend alongside him, and began to pat his shoulder with tenderness and compassion, as if he were his close friend. Al-Hajj Saleh kept flipping through those pictures, and his heart overflowed with longing with every face he saw among those faces. Abdullah became immersed in a deep admiration for this man who suddenly appeared before him. He began to stir up sorrows with every picture he saw, until he reached the last picture, in which he saw his family gathered together, laughing, and he said, with a voice trembling with longing: "Lovers depart without appointment or farewell, or even the word 'see you later.' Do you know what is the hardest thing in life, Abdullah? It is that the people surround you from all sides, and you live alone and a stranger. It is that loneliness that tears you apart, every day and every night, even every hour. And over time, you become a stranger even to yourself, and you become lonely from it after you were born with it, and you fought through it in the battleground of life. In the end, you become lost, fleeing from it after living in it and with it for decades."