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One year, the winds changed early. The rains failed. Then came the locusts. Then the fever.

So he drew. His sketches were strange: spirals of tiny triangles (the small bites of daily worry), wide crescent arcs (the sudden deaths that came in autumn), and near the center, a single dark circle with jagged edges—the great bite, the month when famine or flood or betrayal struck without mercy. mkhtwtat-alm-alsnah

The people laughed. Children peeked into his workshop and saw walls covered in what looked like the teeth of some impossible serpent. But Raheem kept drawing. One year, the winds changed early

“The Year has teeth,” Raheem would warn. “And if you do not know its jawline, its grinding molars, its canines of loss and harvest—it will swallow you whole.” Then the fever

But on the salt flats, Raheem unrolled a new parchment. This time, he did not draw teeth. He drew hands—interlocked, reaching, lifting. Underneath, he wrote: — The Sketches of the New Year.