Fantasy

Look at my mother’s bag, how a hair tie for her hair and a bandage for this wound on your hand will come out of it. I ask her for anything now, she will bring it out. This is what I said to my brother Abdullah who stood amazed while my mother took out everything we asked for from her big bag. He said to her: Mom, I’m hungry. Will I find something to eat with you? The mother said to him: Of course. Just as the magician takes the rabbit out of the hat, my brother opened his mouth. When he tried to say something, my mother put a piece of biscuit in his mouth. We laughed at the scene. Now it was my turn to ask my mother for something from her wonderful bag. ...

It is told that a merchant decided to put all his wealth on a ship and transfer to a new land, but unfortunately, it sank, and he was left with nothing but his son and a piece of land. One night, while he was resting in his land, a strange dwarf called Malak appeared to him. He said to him: My friend, why the sadness? What saddens your heart? He said to him: I lost my wealth, and I’m worried about my son. He said to him: Ask for whatever you want, and you will find it, and in return, give me the first thing that touches you when you reach your home after 12 years. ...

The droplet Laila opened her eyes and found herself hanging on a beautiful colorful umbrella. She saw a big world around her. Everyone in it was wearing woolen coats in many colors that dazzled this small water droplet. Some covered their heads with hats protecting them from the winter cold. Laila started looking right and left, marveling at the fast movement around her, until she lost her balance and fell to the ground. When Laila fell, she fell on the head of another water droplet named Doudi. ...

When there were no flowers on the face of the earth, not even a single flower, when flowers were a dream unknown, a little girl was playing in the garden in front of her house. She repeated the words she knew. She loved words and loved to repeat the word she learned before others. Mama, she repeated ten times. She repeated it as if it were a sweet candy and chewed it as if it were a red berry. ...

Our Arab popular heritage, its exciting tales and beautiful myths, are the best we can hear or read. Every time we listen to a short story from our heritage, we may learn how that legend began or the secret of its name. Our legend is like a novel about the reason for naming the rainbow by this name, but it is known in brotherly Algeria as “Arous al-Gaith” or “Bride of the Rain.” ...

Once upon a time, there was the last group of dinosaurs that lived on the crater of one of the mountains located far from the provincial forests. They lived for thousands of years away from earthly changes, living in peace and safety without needing anyone. One day, their leader decided to return to the earth to impose control over it. Their leader said: Enough of us living like this isolated from the other world. We must descend to the earth. The dinosaurs destroyed their home that they had made on top of the mountain, then headed toward the earth. ...

Somewhere in a neighboring village, there is a wonderful garden known only to a small number of people. Its owners have pure hearts and unique spirits. They are the fairies that still exist to this day. When the moment comes when the light of evening floods the universe and mixes with the horizon that wears the golden color mixed with pink silk, and the blueness of the night ends and darkness comes, the path of the fairies forms where they wake up slowly. ...

Mona was a young girl who lived in a small town with her family, one night she looked to the sky and saw the moon full walking slowly to the sky with the light of the moon shining on the roof of her house, it was very beautiful for the eye, and she started to thank God for all the blessings that He created around her. The moon was far from her for the eye, and she looked to the moon again and felt that there is a person sitting on the moon, sitting under a tree on the moon, and there were people saying that there is an old woman living on the moon, so Mona thought that this woman is patient and can be alone, and she felt with anxiety for the regret of thinking in this patient woman. ...

There was a traveler who passed through many countries. It was a hot day, and the traveler was tired, hungry, and thirsty. He was thinking that he only needed a shaded area to rest in. At that moment, as far as his eye could see, he found a large tree full of leaves. The traveler felt happy and asked himself: Do I have water to drink? The traveler searched and didn’t find any, but he saw a bottle of cold water on the ground under the tree. ...

Every time I went to my grandmother’s house, I always saw a long wooden door, its length about three feet away from bookshelf in my grandmother’s house. She always warned me about approaching it, and despite that I was scared of it, I always felt a challenge to open this scary door someday. Since I was born, the door was always in my grandmother’s house waiting for someone to open it. When I asked my mother what was behind the dark door, her answer was always: “You mean the scary door?” She would turn silent, pretend to answer her phone call, then become silent. I knew she didn’t even want to think about its existence in the house. ...