Tag

Personal Experience

6 writings

The Night the Internet Went Dark

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A first-person account of five days in an unnamed city after the government shuts down the internet, and the neighbours who find other ways to talk.

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A grandson finds his grandfather's old ration card and reads in it a whole life spent proving to the state that he deserved to eat.

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A first-person story of a family dinner after the narrator's younger brother joins the ruling movement's youth volunteers.

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A first-person account of the day officials held a grand ceremony to inaugurate the filling of a single pothole on the narrator's street.

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A poet imagines the government censor reading his poem line by line, crossing out the moon, the sea, and finally himself.

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A first-person poem about voting in a small town where promises arrive every five years and the single road never gets fixed.