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by Alizeh Irfan
A reflection on self-editing and performance, exploring how a life is compressed into acceptable language, and what is quietly abandoned to make the story fit.
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Alizeh Irfan
Alizeh Irfan is a student entering Grade 10 with a deep interest in the sciences and an equally persistent love for language. For a long time, she carried the assumption that people who understood formulas, experiments, and the certainty of numbers were not meant to belong fully to the world of stories. Science seemed to ask for precision; but writing always seemed to demand feeling. Over time, she began to question that divide, and discovered that both are ways of examining what is hidden. One studies the structures beneath the physical world; the other uncovers the structures beneath human behaviour.
Before Dawn Breaks
TWS Publications hereby presents "Before Dawn Breaks," an anthology collection of the compiled works of aspiring writers.
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