• Chapter III: The Count of West Egg

    After months of picking up books only to put them back down, I finally committed and finished The Count of Monte Cristo. And what a book it is. It’s a slow burn initially, but once that cell door slams shut on Edmond Dantes at the Château d’If, the momentum is unstoppable. Dantes becomes a symbol…

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  • Chapter II: Ideas Are Shy

    As we were driving, a good friend asked me something simple. “I’d love to write a story,” he said, “but I don’t have any ideas. Where do you get them from?” I paused. Not because I had an answer ready, but because I didn’t have one at all. I’d never really thought about it. When…

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  • Chapter I: Lightning in a Bottle

    I played with the idea of creating an author website for a long time. But I always stopped myself. I thought, what’s the point if I haven’t been traditionally published yet? I’ll wait. Then, by chance, I saw the domain moniuddin.com was actually available. (An incredibly rare moment to find your first and last name…

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