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Issue 37 | January 2022

  • January 30, 2022
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MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: The Age of Divergence INTERVIEW Fictionalising History and Home: A Conversation with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike FICTION The Story is an Egg, or Five Fragments Of…
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  • January 30, 2022
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PUBLISHER Nzube Nlebedim PHOTOGRAPHS & ART Adeoluwa “theadeoluwaa” Olatunji PRODUCTION Nzube Nlebedim COVER POSTER DESIGN Fortrex Design COVER IMAGE CREDIT www.pixabay.com FINANCIAL PATRONAGE Mr. Chinedu Henry Ibida
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Meet the Team

  • January 30, 2022
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FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Adeoluwa Olatunji GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media Fortrex Studios
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Gratification, & Other Poems

  • January 30, 2022
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Gratification   The sky folds itself into darkness slowly a body receding into the fringes of a vignetted picture & two dogs play at love in the dying light the…
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A Star for the Sleeping Sky, & A Rehearsal of Happy Minutes

  • January 30, 2022
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A Star for the Sleeping Sky   The morning sky, an unfinished artwork, has a fury of white across its country blues. Early birds on lintels of twin buildings, exchanging…
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Purity

  • January 30, 2022
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  since fourteen, my mind has hung in there as a globe of memories. i poke it every evening, and, as it whirls round, every image that comes is a…
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Adlib

  • January 30, 2022
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bewailing my homeland following the afternoon winter cold’s porous bites— an unrehearsed badass sip of the same smoke I puff from a tart cigarette’s butt. A flock of nanny blatted…
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Frozen

  • January 30, 2022
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tinder roughshod underfoot twigs and leaves crack the edge 20 leagues of mist acapella an early frost shocks the forested desert still hawking its firestarter and touchwood still hoping for…
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Bleeding Heart

  • January 30, 2022
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“Nawa oh, why you come day do like woman?” — Semilore Kilaso.   the place you address to as home detest seeing the saltwater washed ashore the lids of your…
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Apathy

  • January 30, 2022
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Photo source: Adeoluwa Olatunji I prod my wishes into every new year with reluctance the way a mother sands her son’s carrion. I’m tired of lifting my tongue unto a…
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