It’s the worst day for two parents as they meet for the first time. But how they have come to this same point where they have to live with the unimaginable?
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“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― How to Win Friends and Influence People
The duality of intolerance
The Silver Plague was the easiest story for me to write because it was from a dream I had. I mean a very vivid one. I was actually going to save it for the fantasy series that I’m currently worldbuilding for along with my LGBTQ+ Crimeverse series. Anyway, I had this dream and I wanted to get it down on my paper before it escaped me. Glad I did, too, because I felt like this would be a close candidate for My Top Ten Favorite Short Stories.
No one knows how, why, or when this new pandemic occurred. But it doesn’t matter now because one man has realized how to put it to an end…and it’s all on in his handwriting.
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― Paradise Lost
The duality of Hell
I have to say. My boss, Hamed, is a spectacular job bringing this story to life on his first photoshoot. To this day, I never expected him to say “Yes”. Martin had to keep reminding me that this project of mine was something very special and people were taking notice of it. Nevertheless, I’m over the moon that Hamed was willing to take part in this little project of mine. I say “little” because the project that I’m going to be working on for next year is going to be quite grand. But that’s not what I want to talk about today. I want to share some “Behind-The-Pen” secrets of What Fresh Hell?
There are so many questions that he wants to be answered but doesn’t know where to start. Wait, that’s not true. He does have one question to start with: “Where the hell is he?”
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Time is cruel. It punishes. I mean, we sentence people to time.
-Maureen Cahill, Lethal Weapon,1×07 “Fashion Police”
The duality of grief and memories
A Walk To Remember was the story that didn’t have a personal link to me but to what a friend said to me. Actually, it one of few short stories from this project that I didn’t make personal. I think because of that fact that I was able to keep it completely ground in science fiction. I wouldn’t call it mundane science fiction (a new term I’ve learned) because I did put one technologically advance software in there but I didn’t make it the focal point. My point was tackling the process of griefing, specifically the “wrong” way of doing it.
Ava is a woman with a daily routine that is meant to be therapeutic. But she doesn’t see it that way and wants to escape it all. She wants to forget it all and will do anything to make it happen.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The duality of criminology
What if I actually acted on my darkest thought in my youth?
A Dialogue Among United Darkness was that one story that was needed to purge out of my system. This story was something that tugging at me for the longest time because it was one of the darkest moments in my teen years. It’s not a moment that I’m particularly proud of and the fact that I’m willing to relive it all is a big step for me. Now, let me start from the beginning.
After waiting for so long, a prolific crime writer gets to have his coveted interview with an infamous killer. But the two of them seem to have a lot more in common – and more connected – than they realize.
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“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
―
The duality of Knowledge
As you may already know from previous entries, I was bullied for a copious amount of reasons, both in and out of my family. Interestingly enough, it was always because of my intelligence and my willingness to learn new things. Moreover, I got most of the bullying from my family – mostly my cousins – because they were more determined to change me into something they can approve of. The key thing they wanted me to change was my passion for knowledge i.e. me being a bookworm. Reflecting on this gave me an interesting premise for Knowledge Flaunted.