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  • Laini Saba (swahili for seven lines)
  • Fallen down
  • It Took Ten Seconds
  • Reliving 1966
  • Laini Saba (swahili for seven lines)

    Trigger warning: child rapeIt had been twenty-four years since she’d last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. The narrow streets were still murky and the tin sheds frail. The large all-white tin house at the end of the street was still standing. It was just as she remembered it.Laini Saba had not changed much over the years. On a normal week day, during the morning hours, men and women swarm these streets jostling trying to make their way to work or to the market - not to mention the children in uniform rushing to school - one could easily mistake laini saba for the most populous s...hApone door

    Fallen down

    I never forget that day.  In the news, the red line with "breaking news" written on it."WWIII official", I bet someone had expected that to happen. The rich countries were depending on making wars in the poor regions, pretended to help them in their solutionwww.onedoor.ccs to the problems, just to make those countries hopeless, and in depended. One doesn't need to take a country by force and make colonies, this just brings the worse and nobody would fall into that kind of violence. Instead, they made a group or organization from the people itself and leashed them to destroy the area, after that all the rich...hApone door

    It Took Ten Seconds

    Trigger warning: rapeHe was decent-looking, maybe a little boring to look at. They always were. His hair was dark, perfectly combed over. You would never see a Marine without every hair in place. The fade must have been recent because it was still fresh. He had a weak chin and dark eyes. He had eyes that said he probably crunched numbers for a living or played a lot of chess. Calculating but ultimately uninteresting. He wasn’t a pretty boy; he probably had only ever been with a handful of girls, despite being in his early 20’s. He was wearing a short-sleeved, button-down shirt. The color was u...hApone door

    Reliving 1966

    More than fifty years ago, I entered a world I had never known existed. This was the summer of 1966, Chicago, featuring Mayor Daley, and ice cream cookies his Mob gave to Black children when their parents delivered them their ballots, unmarked. They let that mob vote for them! I climbed the stairs of gang-infested high-rise buildings. I was mesmerized seven or eight times by the words of Martin Luther King. I emerged a very different person.The electrifying Fourth of July was an afternoon with Dr. King and a march to City Hall on defiance of Mayor Daley, and an evening concert with the most ...hApone door

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