Fuego by Kofi Boamah

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The macaw would just repeat his name and continue on the day. But, by this Ahmed Ahmed had to go to the closest hospital, which he did. And there it became apparent to him that he had in fact contracted an illness, with the symptoms being vomiting, sweating, and the aforementioned hives. The Doctor, one Al Saed, failed to ascertain the route cause of this rather "exotic illness" he said of it. But diagnosed it as "near fatal". Though due to the excited spectacle of the macaws no connection was made between Ahmed Ahmed's sickness and the birds, initially, let alone the Russian Oligarch. In the same week as this happening a villager called Miriam Mousa caused even more hysteria when she apparently, due to years of being wife beaten, killed her husband in front of one of the macaws.

THE PRAGUE LETTERS - Part 1. On the matter at hand of the man from the small province of Slovakia, this is what we knew before the date in question: he would usually wake at 3am and jog for an hour or two, before arriving back to his home, where he would then eat breakfast before seeing to his ablutions. And as the windows into his living room were not curtained his neighbours were always able to be aware of what he did next, usually he would begin to write until late afternoon: everyday like clock work. Though the body was found on the 18th of May no suspects were initially found. It was very much noted that the body had been there for a while, but we'll get to the forensic study later. What concerns the matter most is this change in behaviour of this man many neighbours simply called Misklav. He acquired this nickname two years prior to all these happenings when out of the blue, said a neighbour, the man was said to have stripped naked and run around the village shouting: Misklav.

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