When you sift through your old papers, you find a lot of nonsense... but you also find remnants of ideas and glimpses of thoughts that have some substance. When it occurs to you that these scraps might be useful for something... For a story? They're too short and incomplete. It feels like finding a rusty doorknob and building an entire palace just to place this knob on one of its doors. For an article? Perhaps... but about what? For a poem? Of course not. You've forgotten that you gave up poetry twenty years ago, and rhymes in your hands have become like unyielding deaf stone, with no hope of softening. To be scattered as dialogue on the lips of your characters? The worst stories are those you write just to include something you couldn't find a place for elsewhere. That is the epitome of contrivance. Are they fit for burning? Absolutely. For this they were created, for this they exist. You wait for the family to fall asleep so your wife doesn't see you and become suspicious when she finds you burning papers. Every wife knows what it means for her husband to burn papers... either he's burning old love letters, or his collection of nude pictures because his greedy eyes can only be filled by dust, or he's burning proof that he has another apartment and another wife in Alexandria. You sneak to the kitchen, light the stove, take a deep breath, and lift the pile of scraps to receive their final purification amidst the flames. Then the phone rings. A friend loves these scraps. He's enthusiastic about them. He wants them. When you think for a moment... why not? These scraps might appeal to some. After all, they are a part of you, your dreams, and your frustrations. After all, they are you. Perhaps they are only fit for burning, but someone else might find in them one scrap, one sentence, one word that deserves to live. And thus, this book was born.

• Publisher: Dar Al Sharq for Publishing & Distribution-Cairo – Dar Laila
• Edition Number: 1
• Number of Pages: 79
• Number of Parts: 1
• Binding Type: Paperback
• Paper Type: White
• Printing Colors: Single Color
• ISBN: 97897768362281