June 2024

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Issue 44 | June 2024

Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Destinations, Often, Are Halfway Points Interview: Towards Fiction and an Understanding of Forgiveness: A Conversation with Sabah Carrim Fiction The Evil in Me The Latecomer…

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Credits

Publisher Nzube Nlebedim Photographs and Art Oti Benedict Chijioke Production Nzube Nlebedim Cover Poster Design The Shallow Tales Media Cover Image Credit Dr. Sabah Carrim

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Meet the Team

Fiction Editor Nzube Nlebedim Poetry Editor Chidiebube onye Okohia Nonfiction Editor Orji Victor Ebubechukwu Editorial Assistant Uche Anaekwe Art and Photography Oti Benedict Chijioke Graphics and Cover Designs The Shallow…

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Destinations, Often, Are Halfway Points | Editorial

V.S Naipaul’s 1961 novel, A House for Mr. Biswas, describes the slightly unfortunate Mohun Biswas whose desire to find independence in a home measures up to his search for personal…

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Poetry

Coastal Forlornness | Frank Njugi

In the salty sea air of Mombasa — on a house at the edge of a tangerine glove, I question the literalism of sadness, how a boy becomes fiend to…

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Poetry

Ndako Na Ngai, or My Home | Laurène Southe

Sometimes, a piece of home lands on the tip of your tongue as it dissolves into smaller pieces of digestible joy – Savory pronounced as pundu or chikwanga. Other times,…

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Poetry

History & Checkpoints | Azaiouris Y. Zeon

for Liberia you have heard of how places open fresh eyes into the body, and built memories next to the mark we gather from the war. you have seen the…

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Poetry

Grace & Remnants | Mathew Daniel

Grace for V after Gbenga Adesina’s Glory grace of the night’s throat, lilies of grace; grace of stars and all their dark matter; grace of the sky’s slow race…

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Poetry

Nostalgia | Inimfon Kufre Inyang-Kpanantia

There isn’t much to say about this room cluttered with books & festering with mosquitoes. The carpet stinks of goat urine & the ceiling might collapse any moment. There isn’t…

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