The Story is an Egg, or Five Fragments
1. There is a woman who lives in House 86 on Lugard Street, where I once lived. You will find her sitting at the window. The woman lives alone, though…
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Fictionalising History and Home: A Conversation with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Alberta, Canada. An alumnus of the International Writing Program…
Editorial: The Age of Divergence
Writing is intoxicating, deviant, spiritual. Literature teaches, and literary writers have been known to unlearn, and then to un-teach, and go against the norm. The best art has been known…
Issue 36 | November 2021
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: Home is Never Too Far INTERVIEW Igbo as Pioneer of the Universe: A Conversation with Kasimma FICTION Men Who Read God’s Mind The Argo The…
Meet the Team
FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Rex Sanguis GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media Fortrex Studios
Home is Never Too Far
Only a few days ago, I was in a conversation with a friend who tried to express how much he was experiencing the yearning for home. He called this nostalgic…
Homestretch
i wake to her hoot & the flapping of her wings a new bird on my windowsill spilling the dawn across the drapes it is a new day to…
My Mother Is Growing Old & It Scares Me
that one night | she, too, will become a labyrinth | for ghosts returning home | & under a burning roof | we’d pray for rain…
Mother and I
Mother seated beside me is an event of photograph I am yet to attend. The virtual is in the perception of an outsider’s view; it’s never a bird’s view of…