السبت 23 نوفمبر 2024

The Lake Girl (full story) by Asmaa Nada

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The Lake Girl  by
The Lake Girl by Asmaa Nada

A small village whose people are famous for fishing. This is due to the village being near a freshwater lake but the strange thing is that this lake is located inside a green oasis in the heart of the desert. The people of the village are simple and know each other well. This is because the number of people residing in the village is small and they depend on communication between them. Through visits and the exchange of food no one among them sleeps a night without food inside his house. If one of them gets sick all the men of the village after they return from hunting and selling what they have caught each give a portion of their money to that sick person while the women exchange services for the patients family until he recovers and returns to his work.

The girls of the village are beautiful despite their differences in shape and color and no one knows the reason for this difference. Some of them have brown hair and a brown face some have golden hair and white skin and some have red hair and bronze or wheat skin. It is as if the women of that village had come from all over the world. the world.
The village lived happily and reassured to the point that the fox slept next to the sheep and did not attack them until that day when that strange person came to the village and the peace ended when he stayed among them for only one day then he left and disappeared. The women began to fear for their girls and refused to let them go out after the dark of the night or Before sunrise especially after the village elders daughter disappeared and she or even her body

was not found.
Rumors spread among the fishermen that the girl appears after sunset on the shore of the lake crying and sad calling on the girls to come to play with her and if one of them approaches her she drags her into the heart of the lake and drowns her and in the morning they find her a dead body with traces of nails and various wounds on her body but no Any man sees her only hunters listen to her moaning and wailing.
Going back in time a few years before the appearance of that stranger then his departure followed by the disappearance of the village belle or so they called her.
Every morning after the appearance of the first rays of the sun that resonant voice resounds in the streets of the village which does not require any musical instruments next to it. It is the voice of Samar the daughter of the village chief as she roams the streets of the oasis and sings with her melodious voice to wake up the people of the village. The men go out fishing and the women are divided between... Markets sewing taking care of children everyone in the village knows what to do there is no quarrel between them.
Samar was loved by everyone young and old. She was kindhearted geneous quickwitted and characterized by giving without limits. But she was gifted with something that no other girl had. She could treat any disease with herbs and she loved reading and science. She dreamed of the day when she could travel the world and discover the country.
The village was visited by visitors from all over the world to buy rare and valuable fish and also to receive treatment at the hands

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