“…where her rings usually are, there is a thin pale line. I hope the lack of rings isn’t because she keeps coming in here month after month to buy the same box...
Author - Mali Kambandu
Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In 2018, Mali won the Kalemba Short Story Prize for her story ‘A Hand to Hold’ and was shortlisted for the Writivism Short Story Award for her story The Photograph.