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Paper Planes of Destiny

Ayesha Numa

Submitted to Contest #55

1972. The roads of Kannur, a little town in the south of India had more potholes than the municipality liked to admit. If Shahda wasn't as pious as she was, she would've cursed as her head bumped on the window for the twelth time that afternoon. The bus driver, however, had driven through these roads with roaring children in the back every day for thirty years. So bracing of the body on sighting a pothole and the momentary tremor it caused, were a part of him. But tremors had only just been introduced to Shahda's world re...

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