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The Box
Short story by: Ibrahim Dargouthy / Tunisia
Long queues standing in front of the gate since early morning, scrambling in the hallways; they are wrestling each other as if they were in the Day of Judgment. They enter one after the other the substantial hall fraught with very important people. They choose red, yellow, white, green, blue, orange, purple and rosy cards and pass by a transparent crystal box, place the cards in it and leave the hall, looking at the small lock that seals the rainbow box.
In the evening the box is lifted up on the shoulder like a bridegroom. They open it to count the cards. The strange thing is that, the important people, who are in charge of extracting the cards, do not get tired of this operation. Thus they do the whole procedure easily and fast as rainbow becomes one color, dull gray.
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