Qais and Layla and the wolf

"Qais and Layla and the Wolf" short story texts distributed over text spaces that vary in length and brevity, each title summarizes the story's content, and opens the reader's appetite to cooperate with the text producer in building meaning. It seems that the narrative employment by the writer Al Essa here was not devoid of grandmother stories, but rather this employment bears the mark of folk tales and grandmother stories with a special character of ancient Arab storytelling heritage, which enriched the written text with magic and attraction; it teased the reader's imagination and took them back to worlds they missed to find their lost treasure in the text, so that the story is the beginning and the end. Through crossing its door, possible storytelling is achieved, and through exiting from one of the outlets, the narration is completed, which makes the group's texts continue to delve deeply into worlds of storytelling that are more delightful, enjoyable, and seductive. Under the title ".. after we killed the wolf" we read: "What happened after that... The grandmother returned to the bed, and the hunter left carrying the wolf's body on his back. Layla sat on the edge of the bed, holding her grandmother's hands and looking at them carefully. Layla saw that her grandmother's eyes were dull and her gaze weak, that her hand was sweaty and weak and unable to hold her, that her mouth was empty, wrinkled, and sore. Layla secretly wished that her grandmother could hear her, see her, hold her, kiss her, and... Layla secretly wished that her grandmother was a wolf!". The book includes six very short and short story groups under the following main titles: 1- Letters torn from the body of the story, 2- We are still beating the proverbs, 3- Internal bleeding, 4- The forest again, 5- Sky swing, 6- The time of milk. Book information: • Author: Buthaina Al Essa • Year of publication: 2015 • Publisher: Arab Scientific Publishers • Number of pages: 100