A Thousand Mornings

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  • Treasure trove

    This time I was in the desert, watching the story of Dodola and Zam unfold from a distance. From the ruined ship to the Palace grounds, I saw fate tear apart the lives of these child slaves, their changing relationship and perpetual struggle to build a world for themselves.  A few months prior, I was…

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  • Not on the same road

    There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as in ever on the road The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at…

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  • The Illustrated Man

      A man, inked all over, running from one place to the other to escape the horror of the stories on his body. That’s the Illustrated Man. One day, he saw a sign and decided to get a tattoo. The next day he looked like a man who had fallen into a ‘twenty-colour print press’…

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  • Not perfect but carry on Jeeves

    As I’m writing this, I can barely keep my eyes open. I’m as pleased as punch of course, if I have got the words right. You see yesterday, I was sitting in my chair when what should happen….Jeeves, will you come along, we have a story to tell… You see when you hear a West End…

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  • Once upon a time….

    Once upon a time there was a little kid and all that kid wanted was a story to read. He saw his parents reading and going to bookstores. He tagged along, too, but barely found stories he could understand. Why were there no stories for him to read? It was this question posed by his…

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