This study was conducted to analysed the elements of text cohesion in the short stories collection of "Damascus fire" by Zakaria Tameer who is a Syrian writer. Based on the observations, the researchers have conducted a a study on the elements of cohesion in order to verify the connection of texts with each other in various types of documents such as al-Quran al kareem, Hadith, books, maqamat, and novels. In this study, the researcher has analysed the 1973 Damascus fire short stories collection by Zakaria Tameer, a writer who is known as a modernist in short writing and renowned for his call to witness and criticise the reality of the Arab world.