Friday, October 4, 2024

FICTION

 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...

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...

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...

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...

Princewill Ibe | Isale Eko

Fiction Princewill Ibe -
Dear Abdullah, How quickly time has passed! Days have morphed into weeks, weeks into months, and now years since the...

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

Kiraka D. Mugatsia | Still Waters

The hill was swathed with green foliage from the towering Eucalyptus, the drooping Mexican Pine, Omuyeye, and the Cypress, with the colorful grevillea, Nandi Flame, and Msunzu adding some vibrancy. In between these colors...
Kiraka D. Mugatsia -

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