the gatekeeper & the fading light

Yes, we are overcharged for everything nowadays. I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Hamed bin Saleh al Abri is 60 now, and you will find him wandering down Madruj's single street with a pair of old binoculars, occasionally looking over the slopes at his goats. He left home as a teenager, working as a gatekeeper before coming home again - yet another story unfolding, and trailing off in the fading light.

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