notes of a non-combatant

essays from the occupation

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nameless

Posted by Ibi in America 8 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:55 pm.


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The sound echoes off the tiled walls, sitting in the air and resonating across the entire bathroom. Standing naked in the shower, I stare down at the porcelain tub and watch the stubble fall like black dust, slowly making its way to the ground at my feet. Scraping along my skin, first across my face, [...]

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hard boiled eggs

Posted by Ibi in America 9 months ago at 8:14 pm.


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I was running down empty streets, watching the fighter jets pass overhead, their payload falling like raindrops and exploding into clouds of fire that enveloped the buildings around me. Before long, I found myself under one such building, an extremely large and architecturally interesting structure whose upper floors provided a canopy for a large courtyard [...]

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identity

Posted by Ibi in Morocco 11 months, 1 week ago at 1:14 pm.


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As we all know, once upon a time, a genius, most likely named Sir Scan III, made a breakthrough invention later to be known as the Scantron. We all know of and fondly hate those bubbles with which most of our formal education was evaluated, through which much of our lives has been interpolated into statistics. The nasty side effect, as we all know, is that sometimes those bubbles and [...]

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