[3/12] Mischief | Season 1:Origins Recap

Maskat and Jay are on a mission and no one can stop them, and Ahmed reflects on his own experiences if mischief as both a father and a son

Nov 7, 2021

When is the last time you’ve caused some trouble? When is the last time your inner child has played?

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READ 📖 CHAPTER 3 : Operation Fetish

LISTEN 🎤 S1EP03. Fathers and Sons with Ahmed Sameh 🇪🇬 🇳🇱

REFLECT 🧐 The Inner Child Writer’s Commentary

📖 CHAPTER 3 : Operation Fetish

Jay found a way to make money, and he needs Maskat to help him with a grand heist. It involves explosives, traditional garments and a donkey. Everything goes as planned until an unexpected accident happens.

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Chapter 3. Operation Fetish

Maskat and Jay would always come back to shore full of energy. They would run across the villages by the shore creating endless childhood fantasies about police hot pursuits, superheroes saving the world, or some script from a blockbuster movie they had seen. Over the years Maskat and Jay went from acting out movies to talking about sex and smoking thei…

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🎤 S1Ep03. Fathers & Sons with

Ahmed Sameh 🇪🇬 🇳🇱

Omar interviews his friend Ahmed whose story as a kid burning a market down accidentally, inspired Maskat and Jay’s misadventure in Chapter 3. Sameh reflects on his experiences as a son, and how he now has to deal with his own son’s mischief. Deep shit in this conversation.

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Ep03. When Sons Become Fathers

Listen now (27 min) | Happy Sunday! I present you today with the third episode, covering real stories of people who inspired me to write this novel. Today, we will be covering Chapter 3, where Maskat is running around with his friends Jay and Chiumbo and they are up to wreak some havoc on Lamu Town. Maskat wants to connect with others and he joins the ride to be cool, and to…

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🧐 Writer’s Commentary | Inner Child

We continue exploring archetypes. This one needs our collective attention.

I am a guy with a troubled mind. Many people tell me that I am gifted and that I am calm and relaxed, but on the inside, I tell myself that I am not enough, and find it hard to connect with others often because of that. Ten years ago, I found it very hard to accept the love which I direly needed in my life. Today, it is much better, but I am also not under the illusion that there is a simple end to my suffering either. I continue to explore it, and continue to go in spirals where it feels like I am coming back to the same things over and over again. It was frustrating at first, but I am starting to feel that my inner world is becoming more and more familiar.

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The Inner Child

Hello fantastic subscribers, you keep me going every week and I thank you all for supporting me in doing what I love the most - writing! Every two weeks I cover a chapter by writing blogpost such as this (on a topic relevant to the chapter), and then with an audio interview the following week, with someone who inspired the chapter…

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