Mona Salem Rashed 
Four Crystal Balls 

A physio therapist in his early thirties faces many problems in his career life and his love life turns to a friend to help in solving the hard issues when he, by sheer coincedence, finds a scienfic book about the strong boilogical resembelance between us and our ancestors; the genes and the influence of the genelogical tree on us, but, as the book goes, do thoes genes have any effect on our luck and fate and emotions and behaviors? Does the genelogical tree stretch its branches on our future and decisions as well as chances? Upon reading the book, Dr. Ghazi Hamed searches in his family roots to check the possibility of finding solutions to his problems and answers to his bad luck in love and life and career. The long journey with the book takes him to down deep in history to meet a great grandfather who looks like him physically and mentally together with similar circumsatances the old man lived in. How can the young therapist make use of the theory and borrow solutions from the old past into the present time to solve his problems and sweep away all the obstacles?

About the author

I love writing and drawing. I have studied English literature and language in my BSC and MA because I love this field and because it stirs my imagination. I always write down ideas that come to my head wherever I might be. I also read a lot, all the time. I love to hear stories from others in my country and outside when I am traveling. One of the things that push me to write is moving and traveling to near and far places from Kuwait. It gives me ideas and experience to write and describe all what I see and hear.
On the other hand, my personal experiences that I encounter in my life drive me to present them in words whether in fiction or in poetry. I met a lot of people in my travels, and I wrote about my experience with them. Sometimes I read about places and cultures, and I do my best to travel to them.
As I live in Kuwait, in the south of Kuwait, all my life, I love the culture there, which is a mixture between the Kuwaiti and the Saudi cultures. I love to read and hear stories about the history and culture of the south. This is the reason why I chose to write a story about it. A story that took place in Wafra, one of the major farm cities in the south. It is a mixture of faith and superstitions. The story touches a big part of me because it pulls me back to the childhood world of colors and wild imagination and bed stories and my mom’s lullabies for me before I sleep. A world that accompanied me till this age and later, I expect.
To make good literature, I think that one needs a vivid imagination first, a heart of a child second, a beautiful colorful language third, and an ocean of emotions last, but not least.