Mother [specimen A] & Summary of a Life Briefly Spent
mother [specimen A] take a mother away from a life, put an ear against it hive to hear a loud echo of emptiness. hold it up to the light…
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June 2024
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The One You Broke | Promise Chinonso Udechukwu
CUE: Play Molly Drake’s ‘I Remember.’ HIM The pine tree was almost lifeless, nearly bare. A carpet of fallen needles and leaves with a chestnut hue had formed a rough…
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In The Hurricane’s Wake | Amanie Mathurin
July 06th The unrelenting rains ceased, dark clouds lifted, and we slowly began to count the dead — thirteen. From the muddy hills of Soufriere, to inundated valleys at Dennery,…
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The Latecomer | Chyna Cassell
i. I removed the curtain just beyond the bar at Babou’s to enter the crimson haze of bodies jiving to psychedelic sounds. Securing my seat between the musicians and the…
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The Evil in Me | Sabah Carrim
If you want to convince someone that you’ve locked her up and there’s no escape, is it better to place a bigger padlock on the door instead of a smaller…
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Towards Fiction and an Understanding of Forgiveness: A Conversation with Sabah Carrim
Sabah Carrim has authored two novels, Humeirah and Semi-Apes, both set in the Indian-ocean island of Mauritius where she was born. In 2024, her short story, Fading Mehndi won the Afritondo Short Story Prize. Other short stories have been selected…
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