Tick-Tick Trilogy, (Paperback)

<p>Every Story has THREE VIEWS</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>(Morning)</p><p></p><p>Tick-tick light go blink.</p><p>It mean wake-time.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>PAGE-01</p><p></p><p>It's my dad.</p><p>Was...</p><p>Now, he's just a devil...A freaking monster.</p><p>And, Monster never Smile.</p><p></p><p>It's been 126144000 seconds...Till Today.</p><p>2103840 Minutes.</p><p>35064 Hours.</p><p>1461 Days.</p><p>4 Freaking Years.</p><p>And Counting...</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>She likes to cry, </p><p>But in front of him, she can't, </p><p>She doesn't want to.</p><p>The drops of tears are reserved for darkness.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Only the one who ever saw them is I.</p><p>Why?</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>PAGE-05</p><p></p><p>There are two kinds of memory.</p><p>As I remember.</p><p>Memories remember themselves.</p><p>The kind that burns like the furnace, and the kind that breathes.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>She gives him cold rice from a rusted bowl.</p><p>He eats. Says, "Yum."</p><p>He does not know it is the last of what she saved.</p><p></p><p>He offers me some. Presses a hard grain against my stitched mouth.</p><p>I smile, in the way cloth can...I can.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>PAGE-09</p><p></p><p>Days to week, </p><p>Weeks to months, </p><p>Months to years.</p><p>I felt today he will let me leave, He loves me na.</p><p>He is my lovely father.</p><p>I was wrong.</p><p>Always.</p><p>Maybe.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>I think, maybe the light gone, but Mamma's arms stay.</p><p>I hum hum song.</p><p>I close eyes.</p><p>I sleep.</p><p>"Mamma tired. She sleep now. Me too," I say.</p><p>I smile.</p><p>Me safe in hug.</p><p>We sleep.</p><p>Together sleep.</p><p>Haa..yum...yum.</p>

• Tick-Tick Trilogy, (Paperback)
• Author: Notion Press
• ISBN: 9798902695417
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-01-14
• Page Count: 64