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November 2020

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  • Fiction

For Boys Who are the Colour of Water

  • November 29, 2020
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  i The first time Papa saw pornographic videos on my phone ended in tears. For seven weeks he whipped my bare back until they bled blood and water. He…
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Sisi, When You Go Get Sense?

  • November 29, 2020
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    Despite the fact that you’d sworn before his face with sand in your tongue that you would never, never step your foot into his compound ever again, you…
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Shreds

  • November 29, 2020
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  Baba Sule has beaten his wife again, and as usual, she has brought the dispute to Mu’alim to mediate. The assailant stands, puffing, his arms crossed, his fists hiding…
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Mummy

  • November 29, 2020
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I was six when I knew Mummy was a witch. She had gone to the market that Saturday. Only my elder sister, Temi, who was asleep, and I were at…
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Much Alike

  • November 29, 2020
  • theshallowtales
One day, I woke up with the moon in my eyes, glasses of smiles to map which way my window blinds will face. When I opened my chest and read…
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Joys of Childhood

  • November 29, 2020
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  When reminiscence wakes us up from slumber, It awakens the nostalgic feelings of childhood. Can we ever forget those joyous days? Those days, we chased flies that ran from…
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Tears are How I Say, ‘It Hurts’

  • November 29, 2020
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  here i lie, shut in. an ungainly sprawling creature, foggy-eyed, feeling myself leave myself through a cut on my wrist; a crimson waterfall. cuts are how i say, “i…
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Sights on Saturday

  • November 29, 2020
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One vision. Six doves. Green sated cosmoses precede, Orange wastelands. I have seen this picture somewhere. Who is in? Who is out? In whose mind do these events remain afloat?…
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Defining Overwhelmed

  • November 29, 2020
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Oblivion beckons again, like a can of beer dripping in chill sweats, after a brief elevation of my encumbered soul by a fleeting lightning. It’s all dark and I can’t…
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How You Wear Your Skin Like a Hymn

  • November 29, 2020
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  losing its melody. This time the music is a stream in another mouth, but isn’t language like molten metal? A name is a shifting reflection of what frames it:…
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