Short storyThe shift worker [Archives:2006/981/Community]

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September 14 2006

By: Yousef Salem Bamahra
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Mukalla-Hadramout

It was two in the afternoon. Streets were almost empty. The sun shed its hot rays. This period was the hottest of the year. The people of Mukalla called these days Alarbienia, the forty days.

Nadeem was a shift worker in Donia Telecom Center. He was a tall young man, aged about 22 years.

“This will be the fifth and the last