These are my articles written over time. Please feel free to ask questions about any post.
Date: August 9, 2029 — 10:30 p.m. Location: Harlem, New York City Weather: Quiet summer heat, air thick with possibility Amara Okonkwo’s apartment was small. Books, not power, filled the walls. A pot of tea steamed untouched on the coffee table. She sat barefoot by her window, looking out at the East River— the same […]
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Date: October – November , 2028 Location: Everywhere and nowhere Temperature: A world warming faster than its leaders could speak The Crack Begins With a Pause The collapse didn’t start with riots, or blackouts, or market crashes. It began with a pause. A strange, heavy global pause— as if the entire world suddenly realized it
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Date: October 2, 2028 — 11:52 p.m.Location: UN Secretariat Building, 39th Floor — Amara Okonkwo’s OfficeWeather: Heavy, windless summer night over the East River The Circle arrived without cameras.No livestreams.No rooftop. Emil, Layla, Priya, Sami (carrying the gray stone in his backpack),still limping slightly from the Veto Funeral. Secretary-General Amara Okonkwo asked for this meeting
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Date: March 11–14, 2028 Location: The Rooftop of the UN Secretariat Building, New York They took the flags down on purpose. On the morning of March 11, 2028, every national flag that normally snapped above the rooftop was gone. In their place hung 193 simple rectangles of undyed linen, each one blank. The invitation had
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Date: January 27, 2028 Location: First Avenue, UN Headquarters → East River Occasion: A Global Mourning Ritual It began with paper. Not speeches. Not resolutions. Just paper— thin bright squares of red, the color of dried ink, flame, and finality. By sunrise, thousands of people were gathered outside the UN Headquarters holding them. Children folded
December 14, 2027 — 10:52 PM Emil’s fire escape, Brooklyn The cold on the fire escape felt different from the rooftop. Harsher. Lonelier. Emil sat with his knees pulled to his chest, forehead resting on the metal railing. Below him, the city glowed in the kind of silence that only exists after something historic has
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Date Range: December 12, 2027 – January 9, 2028 Location: Rooftop of the UN Secretariat Building, New York Ambient Conditions: Subfreezing wind, intermittent snow, unpredictable sky The idea was ridiculous. Which meant, by now, it was inevitable. The Security Council chamber still smelled of burned mahogany and failed vetoes. The Memory Basement was overrun with
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Date: November 16 – December 1, 2027 Location: United Nations Headquarters & global media They tried to erase the ash. At 4:12 a.m. on November 16, a cleaning crew in hazmat suits arrived with industrial solvent and power brushes. They scrubbed the horseshoe table for six straight hours. The violet-black spiral only darkened, eating into
Date: October 17 – November 3, 2027Location: Sub-Basement Level -3, UN Headquarters, New York They weren’t allowed in the archives.So they went anyway. At 2:14 a.m. on the seventeenth of October, seven kids in navy hoodies slipped past the night guards, carrying nothing but two tins of Sudanese ash-ink, a box of reed brushes, and
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Date: October 2, 2027 – 10:03 AM Location: Security Council Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York The door was heavier than Emil expected. Seven college kids in hoodies and scuffed shoes stepped into the Security Council chamber like they didn’t belong—because they didn’t. Not yet. Fifteen ambassadors in suits looked up from carefully curated expressions.
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