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  • Dragonfly, part 5

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    It was an interesting piece of indoctrination that each novice received: So, you are a good guy, am I right – right. Have you ever thought of hurting anyone – of course, you have, everyone does think of it but the bad guy – he actually hurts somebody. You, you as a good guy only…

  • Hearth

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    It had to be a specific wood – from the tree whose bark was once highly priced for its aroma – the cinnamon that the clan had to protect from traders and their agents, in the past. The high priest carefully lit a votive candle through the always-burning sacred fire in the designated hearth. With…

  • الٹ پوشاک کی سیدھی آستین

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    ایک تھیں اماں بہادر۔ کمپنی بہادر کی طرز پہ نہ سہی لیکن اپنی طرح سے اماں بہادر نے کئی بہادری کی داستانیں رقم کر رکھی تھیں۔ لیکن قصہ اب کے بس  اتنا تھا کہ جب بھی ان کے کنبے کے 57 بچوں سے حماقت سرزد ہوجاتی، اماں سب چھوڑ کے تسبیح پکڑ لیتیں اور جب…

  • Main Leader of China (Brief Story)

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    Who was the main leader of China after independence? The questionnaire provided four options. He encircled d. None of These. The guy immediately to his left raised his brows to show his surprise but he kept encircling d. on all questions. He, then, calmly waited for invigilator to say Time’s up, which took eternity for…

  • Working Title: a meta-thetical story (part 11)

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    IV Per Pynchon’s Paranoia Postulation, one is allowed to be a solipsist, esp., when for no good reason one watches Anesthesia et True Grit back to back (a consequence of singing – in the bath – Today is Friday, it is my day, who knows). But that’s where I must depart from alliteration to humbly…

  • Working Title: a meta-thetical story (part 10)

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    part 7: https://werticalhorizon.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/working-title-a-meta-thetical-story-part-7/ part 8: https://werticalhorizon.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/icarus-excerpt-from-a-meta-thetical-story/ P1 Feminists tell us, don’t look at the woman standing in the box like a mannequin, as if she is an object. But one cannot blame the on-lookers in such a situation. They object: virginity is a social construct. Once I accept it, I end up with 747 Gambit:…

  • Working Title: a meta-thetical story (part 7)

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    May – Dec 2019 Part 6: https://werticalhorizon.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/chis-side-of-the-meta-thetical-story-excerpt/ P0 Whether UNavy shots down a civil plane killing less than 300 people or a PanAm becomes a target of terrorists, killing a similar number, you must know that you are a pawn. Dec 1925. Calkin tells me before Muslims became suicide bombers, your communists et LTTE did…

  • Working Title: a meta-thetical story (part 5)

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    May – Dec 2019 ⏀B 97 Maybe the only Solace God can offer is reset. After all, God created a vamp haphazardly, and, grandiloquent that God is, made us all blind like the prince, who could not differentiate between glass et wood – though wood is far beautiful unless you are, like myself, Galileo in…

  • Working Title: a meta-thetical story (part 4)

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    May – Dec 2019 Like this broad page, I, too, feel better for getting out of jail figuratively. Like the ball, something encompassing me seems broken; a new light is shining, beckoning me to accept. Völva our seer told me: If I say eventually you will find Natasha, you will stop striving; and, if I…

  • Working Title: a meta-thetical story (part 3)

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    May – Dec 2019 51 Beside fatalism, exists causal determinism, which goes like this: we complain to the greengrocer or fruit vendor: You are selling vegetables/fruits overpriced. S/he responds: It’s not me, but the whole-seller; while the whole-seller is exonerated by virtue of the farmer, who, in turn pts towards the land-owner. Now, the feudal…

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