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February | 2016 | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. Month: February, 2016. February 29, 2016. Fatimah in Arabic means the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad . Everyone in her life always made a point to remind her of that. It was a daunting bar of expectation that seemed to rise higher every year. How could you dress that way? Her mother said once. You’re shaming your namesake, child. There’s nothing perfect about you, girl! Her brother used to tease. Whatever, she said before telling him to eat shit and die. A video of...
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March | 2016 | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. Month: March, 2016. March 7, 2016. The first shots of gunfire came in shortly after Anton made his way into one of the city’s worst hit districts. He was walking down a main road, assessing the damage done to the residential zone there when sniper fire began to pepper his position. He immediately scrambled to cover, but wasn’t sure whether he should plan on retaliating against the shooter or not. He breathed a sigh of relief when he reached the base of the building&#...
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Everlasting Life | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. The walk from Johannesburg had all but broken Anton’s spirit. Leaving the city was difficult in and of itself, but watching the others fall to the Afrikaner Corps’ weapons had almost destroyed his willingness to keep going. After the crackdown they lost two day laborers trying to get out of Soweto. The NP’s police were scouring the streets, shooting at anyone out past curfew. He blamed himself for that. Anton closed his eyes, trying to block out the memory. His b...
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Everlasting Life | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. She arrived at her school, during recess. The feeling brought on by other memory caused her to shake uncontrollably and slump to the floor. Hundreds of children playing and screaming barely noticed her lying there enough to go around. Only a few stopped to see if she was okay. Nathan was one of them. When she opened her eyes next, Shelly felt like she was waking up from a dream. Tears began to surface quickly from her disorientation. Shelly didn’t say anything and ju...
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Last Days | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. He thought about the last days from time to time. Usually when he laid down and couldn’t sleep. When he looked into a sky where the stars were occluded by thick dark clouds. The braying of the dogs in the distance made him remember. They made him remember about Toby. He was a mixed breed. Large and black with sad eyes. Just like me, he thought. Surviving in this thing. He would dream about them sometimes and later try to imagine who they were. Who were they? Out ther...
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Everlasting Life | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. She thought about dying. Thought about it everyday. From the moment her head hit the pillow to the moment her eyes fluttered open, she obsessed about leaving this world and seeing what lay beyond. She toyed with the idea of taking her own life, just to spite her parents and all the people who thought that she should live a virtuous life just because of her namesake. She stared blankly at everything and everyone and just did whatever everyone else wanted her to do....
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Everlasting Life | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. Fatimah in Arabic means the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad . Everyone in her life always made a point to remind her of that. It was a daunting bar of expectation that seemed to rise higher every year. How could you dress that way? Her mother said once. You’re shaming your namesake, child. There’s nothing perfect about you, girl! Her brother used to tease. Whatever, she said before telling him to eat shit and die. A video of the event made its way online. In it,...
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Everlasting Life | 365 First Drafts
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. For everyone else, life is an experience and then they die. Death, for them, is a release. For me, it’s just the beginning of another experience–one that I never asked for. It’s why I’ll never forget Mr. Han. There’s a guy who was exactly the same in every reality. Right down to the last detail. He had been living down the way from my childhood home since before my family ever moved to the block. Unlike most people I came across in my travels, Mr. Han was one of ...
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365 First Drafts | "It's like cardio, but for your brain." | Page 2
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It's like cardio, but for your brain. February 27, 2016. Shelly had just started to ride her bike when she had an episode and fell over onto the street, skinning her elbow. For months she had begged her parents to get her the pink one, with the pink things on the handles. They’re called tassels, sweetheart, her mother said. Shelly said, smiling. For months she begged and for months they denied her, afraid she was too young to start riding a bicycle at age of four. She didn’t agree. Especially sin...Remem...
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