The Barter

In the world of short narration, the writer tends to make condensation and brevity two inseparable qualities. He seeks not to be drawn into verbosity that will eventually lead to slouch that will kill his short narrative speech. From here, the novelist Hameed Al-Hreyzi sought, impulsively, with a vision that he finds appropriate to the taste of the reader of our present era, where speed makes him prefer the small subject; The one who finishes his reading in a short time.The writer draws a narrative space whose connotations and descriptions indicate a time of any dictatorial rule in which the individual's loyalty should be to his leader. No one has the ability to see or meet the leader easily. And this interview or viewing takes place only after strict procedures and moving from place to place by more than one mean of transportation, surrounded by tough guardsmen with grim faces and frowning features, which make the recipient conclude that the writer depicted an atmosphere that was characteristic of the dictator Saddam Hussein and his rule. In Saddam regime There is no trust in any citizen, and there is no security in anyone, whether inside or outside the state.