Friday, October 4, 2024

FICTION

Malkia Charlee | Tara Diddle

Fiction Malkia Charlee -
            “Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid—all absolute rubbish.”             “How so?”             “Consumerist gavage. Group presentation of our buttery wallets in obsessive...

Felix Otieno | I Write This As If I Am Not African

Fiction Felix Otieno -
This man Lewis called me on the twenty fifth asking if i would fight for him. The bedside phone...

 Mike Paterson-Jones | The Scar

Fiction Mike Paterson-Jones -
It started in a small bare cement-walled room somewhere in the bowels of the city police station. There were...

Itseme Akede | I Cry Only At Night

Fiction Itseme Akede -
I was never like the rest of them. Not even at the times I tried my hardest, and I...

Kiraka D. Mugatsia | Still Waters

Fiction Kiraka D. Mugatsia -
The hill was swathed with green foliage from the towering Eucalyptus, the drooping Mexican Pine, Omuyeye, and the Cypress,...

Daniel Joe | Mummy’s Pet

Fiction Daniel Joe -
One could begin with the small potholes that made his ass and scrotum hurt like hell, or the big...
Fiction

Princewill Ibe | Isale Eko

Dear Abdullah, How quickly time has passed! Days have morphed into weeks, weeks into months, and now years since the last time our bodies gnarled into a knot. Isn't life surprisingly fleeting? Mama would say...
Princewill Ibe -

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