Ali Hamdoun

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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“Rob” by Ali Hamdoun

Submitted to Contest #272

I slammed the door open! Wham! Well, maybe slammed is a tiny bit over-dramatic exaggeration on my part. You’ll have to bear with me and my fucked up all over the map recollection of the following events. I’m normally not a very well-spoken guy. But since this is a rather special occasion, I decided to break the habit. Like I said, in order to get the whole story, you’ll have to bear with my scattered brain, with my disjointed storytelling. ‘Think you can manage that? If so, great! Well, I guess all that’s left for me to do is to tell said st...

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“Desperate Remedies” by Ali Hamdoun

Submitted to Contest #248

April 2nd, 1896 Benjamin Cornelius Cornwell was blankly staring at the emptiness. At a void beyond their realm, it seemed. Sitting vegetatively, catatonically in Saint Jean de Dieu’s big day room situated at the ground floor. Where he spent most of his time. Gazing outward, northward, beyond the veranda-like bay window which offered a full view of Saint Jean de Dieu’s garden. Meanwhile an ever affluent agitation of personnel, composed of mostly nuns, sisters, kept the overwise nursery home-looking place somewhat alive. And God knows the plac...

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Author bio

Ali Hamdoun is an up-and-coming writer with a unique voice which he utilizes to pen down nontraditional, thought-provoking as well as engaging stories. So far he’s the author of Welcome to Rocky Tank Town. And his upcoming second novel, Habracadabrah (read synopsis below). Habracadabrah, magical formula which in Hebrew means: Let there be which has been spoken. Let which has been said become existing. This formula changed from being an incantation commonly used in the Middle Ages to treat fevers to the expression repeated by magicians expressing by this formula: That the spectator was now going to witness the climax of the show. The moment when words come to life! But aside from this meaning given since the dawn of time by rabbis, we can give another meaning to this formula: the birth of our universe. H, Aleph: Hydrogen HB, Aleth-beth: Helium HBR: Oxygen By pronouncing the formula: HABRACADABRAH, we are not just announcing a magic trick. We are doing the most beautiful, tremendous and most extraordinary of all magic tricks. How is this possible?...What is happening here?
H-How is...How
 Shinobu kept repeatedly asking himself. He was told that he had until about age 20 to live. Yet here he was at 26, back from his daily three to four hours walk. Staring at a sumptuous full grown Pomegranate tree towering over Seiren’s burial spot. Sumptuous full grown Pomegranate tree which wasn’t there at all four hours earlier. Avid and casual readers alike embark on this very special (multi-genre, speculative science-fiction, Historical drama) epic odyssey across the ages, across Time and Space, across History. Peopled with a rich smorgasbord of characters. Shinobu, a Hiroshima survivor. Maria, a Holodomor survivor. Kazimir, a Tungus from 1908. A Neo-Babylonian king. And a sentient celestial debris. So if you like Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001, A space Odyssey, WƂadysƂaw Szpilman’s The Pianist, H. P Lovecraft’s The Colour out of space, Alan Moore’s Watchmen, you’ll love Habracadabrah.