Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.

"Selamat ulang tahun, Ibu!" teriak sebuah suara yang familiar. Suara itu kemudian hilang, digantikan pelukan erat. Kedua lenganku membalas dekapan anak kesayanganku. Pelukannya terasa hangat, mengingatkanku akan perjuangan ayah, Nusantara, saat mendirikan Majapahit dulu. Batavia sekarang sudah dewasa, meski masalah mengompolnya belum juga sembuh. Aku merengkuh tubuhnya yang bau dan penuh polusi, mengenali kali-kalinya yang hitam dan halaman-halamannya yang botak. Apa pun yang terjadi, aku tetap bangga dengan Batavia. Menjadi ibu kota memang berat, aku paham betul. Biar pun wajah Batavia selalu terlihat menganggumkan, badannya dipenuhi sampah. Sampah yang mungkin setinggi gedung-gedung pencakar langit yang tampak di wajah putraku itu. Tapi tak apa, Batavia. Bersabarlah. Sebentar lagi tanggung jawabmu akan dipindahkan ke Borneo. [Sekarung Sampah Untuk Indonesia #3] dipublikasi di Kompas Muda https://muda.kompas.id/2018/07/20/lelehan-lilin-pertiwi/