Autobiography

St. Kilda in His Bones
Elias Thorne wasn't much for 'living.' He existed. Six days a week, he cataloged the forgotten lives of others in the city archives, his fingers stained with the dust of centuries. His flat, a single room overlooking a grimy alley, held only what was necessary: a cot, a chipped mug, a stack of worn books. He didn't crave adventure, not truly. He just wanted a quiet corner. And then, the St. Kilda Box arrived.
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The Backward Tick
He found it in a shop that smelled of old wood and forgotten lives, crammed between a chipped porcelain doll and a stack of encyclopedias missing their 'G'. An ornate mantel clock, dark mahogany, with brass flourishes dulled by time. Nothing special, really. Just another piece of somebody else’s past waiting for a new home. Elias, he just needed something to fill the silence in his own quiet apartment, something that wasn't the hum of the fridge or the creak of the floorboards under his own heavy steps. He paid the old man a twenty, didn't haggle. Didn't have the energy for it.
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Chapter 9: The Final Sermon (Farewell Hajj)
The Final Sermon (Farewell Hajj) In the year 632 CE, Prophet Muhammad ﷺ knew that his mission was coming to its completion. After more than twenty years of struggle, patience, guidance, and sacrifice, Islam had spread across Arabia. Tribes that once fought endlessly were now united by faith. Justice had replaced chaos, and mercy had replaced revenge.
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Chapter 8: The Peaceful Conquest of Makkah (630 CE)
The Peaceful Conquest of Makkah (630 CE) For nearly twenty years, the city of Makkah had been a place of pain for the early Muslims. It was where they were mocked, tortured, boycotted, and forced to leave their homes. Families were divided, livelihoods were destroyed, and many suffered simply for believing in one God. Even after migration to Madinah, the threat from Makkah never fully disappeared.
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Chapter 7: The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
Chapter 7: The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah Several years after migrating to Madinah, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and his followers still longed for Makkah. It was their birthplace, the city of the Ka‘bah, and the center of their faith. Though they had been forced to leave, their love for Makkah never faded. In the sixth year after Hijrah, the Prophet ﷺ had a dream that Muslims would enter Makkah peacefully to perform Umrah, the lesser pilgrimage.
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Chapter 6: The Early Battles and Self-Defense
The Early Battles and Self-Defense After migrating to Madinah, the Muslim community finally found safety—but peace did not come immediately. The Quraysh of Makkah were furious. They had lost control over the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and his followers, and they feared that Islam would grow stronger outside their reach. Even though the Muslims had left their homes, property, and wealth behind, the hostility did not end.
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The Scribes of Shadow-Dust
Elias. Twenty-three. Skin stretched too tight over bone, shadows under his eyes like bruised plums. He spent his nights in the university library, the oldest wing, where the heating sputtered more often than it warmed, and the dust, a permanent, ancient resident, clung to everything. Stacks of forgotten texts, leather-bound and brittle, loomed over him, endless rows of hushed histories. The air, thick with the scent of aged paper and something else, something metallic, like old blood or forgotten iron, pressed in. He was supposed to be working on his thesis, the one that would decide everything, the one that would either pull him out of this suffocating existence or bury him under it. Instead, he just sat, staring at the faded script of a book he couldn't even recall pulling, feeling the weight of his father's disappointment pressing down, a physical thing against his chest.
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Through the Emptiness
A note for the book 404: Reality Not Found They say writing is easy. No, it isn’t. Sometimes it comes naturally… but only when I’m sad and need to throw out the excess shit I’ve been holding inside for weeks, months, years. Everything I’ve been suppressing spills onto the page. It’s the only way I can understand what I really feel, because otherwise, I suffocate in this world where nothing seems truly mine.
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The Last Line West
The air smelled like wet ash and old fear. Elias pulled Lily closer, her small hand like a bird's claw in his. She was quiet, too quiet, just staring at the behemoth of rusted steel that groaned on the tracks. The 'Last Hope,' some idiot had called it, spray-painted on the side in faded red, almost like a joke. Last hope for what? Last hope for *nowhere*. That’s what they’d all whispered, the hushed, ragged crowd pushing and shoving for a spot. He remembered the general’s speech, all bravado and empty promises. 'West,' he’d boomed, 'to safety.' Safety was a word that felt like a foreign language these days.
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The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Below is an **original story** inspired only by the *theme* of endurance and humanity—not a retelling of Hemingway’s work. It is **fully new in plot, characters, and language**, written in a **classic literary tone**, as you prefer.
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The Hush Before Dawn
Arthur woke to an absence. Not a sound, exactly, but the lack of all the usual ones. No distant rumble of the late-night bus, no neighbor’s dog giving its perfunctory bark at some unseen shadow, not even the drip-drip-drip of the old faucet in the kitchen he usually ignored. Just… nothing. A thick, oppressive quiet that pressed in on his eardrums, made them ache with the effort of hearing.
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Chapter 5: Building the First Islamic Society in Madinah
Building the First Islamic Society in Madinah After the migration (Hijrah), Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the early Muslims arrived in Madinah, a city very different from Makkah. Unlike Makkah, Madinah had many tribes, different religions, and long-standing conflicts. The city needed peace, order, and unity. What happened next was not only the beginning of an Islamic state, but also one of the most important social transformations in history.
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