Behind the world

Number of pages: 103 pages Publisher: Arab House for Science Publishers She stared at the huge iron door that stood in front of her with a deadly determination, as if it was stacking behind it her life, which she knew nothing about yet. It extended, grew taller, and widened as if struck between the earth and the sky, between her and hope. She felt that the more she stared at it, the bigger it became, thicker, and more brutal, turning into an executioner, a beast, a demon, and many men. She felt it was connected to the wall and the entire room, and that it was becoming more solid and cohesive, while the room shrank, narrowed, and turned into a deep hole in the earth's interior. She was not thinking about her wound after the blood dried on her fingertips, her face mixed with tears, saliva, and mucus. The big door was what consumed her thoughts. She sat on the bed facing it, leaning her head against the wall. And the more she thought about it, the more people, life, her neighbors, her work, her laughter, her mother, their house, and even the scoundrel Nasser, who she placed her heart at his feet because he was the first man in her life to say beautiful words to her, seemed to fade away.