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Hadi Pakzad
Hadi Pakzad, known as “H-P”, was born in December 1982 in Mashhad, Iran, and began writing fiction and composing rock music in his teens. He released seven concept albums and the official selection Darkness, writing the lyrics and musical ideas of all of them himself. He died in May 2016.
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Untitled — “Two Milligrams of Clonazepam”
Two milligrams of clonazepam (benzodiazepine) One milligram of lorazepam (benzodiazepine) Ten milligrams of zolpidem (non-benzodiazepine) It's past four in the morning…
Letter #1
Hello, my dear You had asked me not to tell anyone anything, and just like the toy revolver I stole as a kid from my spoiled cousin, I hid you from everyone. My cousin…
Lovesickness
Love isn't a known, discovered disease, but I've heard they're something like worms that start multiplying in the cavities of the brain. And it's not as if there are…
Letter #3
My dear, toward the end of winter I wasn't doing well, like every year around that time. Sometimes I think that because I was born at the start of winter, near its end a…
Not Walking
Quite by chance I saw a cheetah. Naturally, my first thought was that he would attack me. But when I looked closely I realized he didn't expect me to be afraid of him at…
I'm an Engineer
I live in my paternal body, a body I inherited from my family and grew up in. I'm not from anywhere else; my body is the only place I'm allowed to live. Sometimes I look…