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Selfish People Embellish and Empower My Fictional Characters

I wish they knew how much I relish their callousness

Dr. Fatima Imam
2 min readJun 19, 2024

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The invisibility cloak provides immense mental peace. Hidden from the prying eyes of ridicule, disgust, and inquiry, I can maintain a sense of sanity in my chaotic world.

Not using my pain as a point of discussion, I’m blatantly ignored by everyone. Since money is the new God, my poverty keeps me out of charts of comparisons and contrasts.

I never bother to appeal to be included anywhere because living in the safety of solitude in self-imposed exiled worked perfectly for over two decades.😊

People don’t seek my advice until they’re desperate and know that the last-minute appeals to wade them out of tumultuous times will be met. It is the only way I keep in touch with my friends and acquaintances. Neither of them can even bear to ask how I’m doing. Being scared, I might try to burden them with some problems.

I am forgotten in good times with flimsy excuses, but I’m supposed to make myself one hundred percent available in…

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Dr. Fatima Imam

Poet, writer, artist, historian, educator, advocate of underrepresented voices, and cat lover.