These are my articles written over time. Please feel free to ask questions about any post.
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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Date: September 14, 2027 – 11:47 PM Location: Room 312, West Quad Residence Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan The radiator clanked like it had something to confess. Emil sat cross-legged on the carpet, hoodie zipped to his chin, eating cold ramen straight from the pot with a plastic fork. One bare bulb. One cracked window letting
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July 1, 2026 Written on the back porch, Crestview, under a sky the color of old iron My dear Emil, I have not crossed a border in forty years, yet tonight I feel the Jhelum in my bones. You sent no photograph, only a ledger page—three murals, one river, 312 names. I held it to
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The invitation arrived quietly — a secure link to a video meeting scheduled for May 20th. Its subject line read simply: “The Valley That Remembers.” When the Circle gathered at the appointed hour, the screen blinked to life with the insignia of the United Nations and a single representative from the Department of Culture and
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