by Marycynthia Chinwe Okafor | Jan 28, 2022 | Fiction, Prose
For generations unknown, Nnanna’s family had guarded the Circle of Life, her father, her father’s father, and others before him. Every planting season, on the eleventh moon, when the Circle made its journey, a member of her family, cleansed and innocent of...
by Tutu Adedoyin | Sep 24, 2021 | Nonfiction, Prose
I am surrounded with friends who love me, but I still feel trapped by this lonely feeling. The mind is like that person who doesn’t want you, but doesn’t want you to be with others. It wraps you up in a cocoon of worry that you become blinded to the love and care...
by Kasimma | Jul 9, 2021 | Fiction, Prose, Short Stories
After you buried your third child, your father, fed up with the deaths, summoned you. You were not surprised, no. You had expected his summons earlier, especially because the deaths of your first two children were exactly the same. Nine days after her birth, your...
by TJ Benson | Apr 30, 2021 | Fiction, Prose, Short Stories
He has told the fifteen year old girl that he doesn’t want to see her again. She won’t listen. She has chased him all over the cheap hotels of Rio de Janeiro. His love, she insists, is all she needs. What does a fifteen year old girl know about love? Two weeks...
by Joshua Chizoma | Apr 30, 2021 | Fiction, Prose
It was the shoes that Petra noticed first. Low-heeled, polished pair of black shoes.The kind of shoes one wore to a teaching job, or as a teller in a bank. Coupled with the medium-length black skirt and button-down white shirt, the woman had an almost severe air about...
by Charity Ngabirano | Apr 9, 2021 | Fiction, Prose
December 4th 1994. Mbarara, Uganda He walked briskly behind me. Tight, light, almost non- sounding steps. I gripped the straps of my schoolbag, my heart racing with each step. I looked over my right shoulder. He stopped to buy some fruits. I hurried on, determined to...
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