Journal

Light tore through the wide window in Ken’s room.Sleep had abandoned him yet again. He was living alone now in the ruins of what had once been a home, a crumbling temple of memory and rot.He woke disoriented, limbs heavy with the weight of silence, and stumbled toward the bathroom. In the mirror, he caught…

Woke at 3 a.m., surfacing from the haze of a long, meandering bender microdosing on ████, self-experimentation in the spirit of inner cartography. I stepped onto the balcony, cigarette in hand. The city slept, indifferent. It struck me, then: there is nothing holding me back. So I ran. Ran to the park past shuttered storefronts…

Picture this.It is a warm summer evening in the border town of Joghat. Adi, a young resident, is on duty in the ER. The faint cry of sirens grows louder, echoing through the dusty corridors of the understaffed NGO hospital. Elsewhere in the building, Dr. Mehta Adi’s senior sits slouched at his desk, the flickering…