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Sufiyaan Salam

Writer

Jul 20, 2026

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What are you going to
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read? Maybe the first two chapters? Chapter one, Moving as a Massif.
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Toolboy's driving dream of an impossible night on an endless street.
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Moving as a Massif through mad sticky traffic.
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Destination, where else? Manchester, Wimslow Road, the Curry Mar, yo.
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That Shisha Hayes mecca of mischief and magic.
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A genital for a dose of kebab houses and jalebi bars.

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Do you think you're a wise person?
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How do you balance all of that yet still manage to make it feel really cohesive?
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It just felt true to me and these characters.
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And I think we live in a world where you're constantly interacting with a million different mediums.
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Even just the experience of scrolling through Instagram stories, for example, you're greeted with... uh, some song someone's put on as they're running some, you know, kind of like horrible new story.
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Some like, uh, someone's at the cinema.
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So someone's like doing whatever with family.
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And you're sort of like within a few seconds, just treat it to like a, uh, a whole gamut of like human experiences.
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Why do you think that's different and which do you kind of relate to more? I

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