Vignette:Adventures in Kakhab: Part 1

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 * June 19th, 2021

remember when I was 15...

when I first drove into the city. It was breathtaking the city, a vast periphery of stone cobbled buildings flanking a small island of vast skyskrapers. Blue buildings rising up to the ether contained within them some of the largest companies in the country. Kakhab was perhaps the last place on the Avalonian frontier - a place where you could make it through mere will and hard work. Opportunity here was endless to whoever could look for it.

And that was inspiring to me. My hometown was quite close to Kakhab, barely an hour long drive away, but there was none of the lusture. The shipyards that made my hometown were languishing into nothingness. Vast concrete spires dominated the landscape - slowly crumbling and decaying. Graffiti littered the walls, addicts filled the dirt streets, there was nothing there but the rainforest that would soon slowly encroach us.

From the age of 15 onwards I convinced myself I would make it in Kakhab. I could leave my rotten hometown and go to a more proposerous, clean, and progressive place. But wouldn't my peers do the same? Stress would eat me away, especially as I sent the offers and nobody came knocking.

"Alyusha, [tbd] has looked at your resume and experience and we've decided to accept you for an interview. Please come to our office at 3pm on Thursday."

The email was just that. Short... (read more)

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