A New Earth
They were supposed to be picking fruit, but they couldn’t resist getting frisky. Kemunto had been a school teacher, the buttoned-up type, but the end of the world had taught…
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One Too Many Souvenirs
No matter how rich you are, you must strip naked to be embalmed – Iya Teslim We will never know if my mother acquired this saying from mothers gone before,…
The Concubine
When Nkiruka’s husband asked me to be the woman he would take solace in away from his wife, the woman that would warm his bed day and night when his…
The Worry List
One kilogram of tomatoes. Not too ripe. Not too red. Plump but not too soft, so they keep for longer. I grab the bag and put it in the empty…
Black Lives Always Matter
He could hear the whizzing sound from the wings filtering soothingly into his ears as the plane flew at an altitude of over 30,000 feet above the earth level. He…
Motive & African Writing: A Conversation with Soji Cole
Soji Cole is a Nigerian academic, playwright, film scriptwriter, and theatre practitioner. He has won the African Theatre Association (AfTA) Emerging Scholars Prize, and the International Federation for Theatre Research…
The Shallow Tales Review welcomes Victor Orji Ebubechukwu into the team as non-fiction editor
We are very excited and pleased to welcome Orji Victor Ebubechukwu into The Shallow Tales Review team as full non-fiction editor. He will now be handling the horde of creative…
Issue 32 | March 2021
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: CAPTURING TIME INTERVIEW An Endless Pursuit of a Perfect World: A Conversation with Rasaq Malik Gbolahan POETRY Pledge Gnashing of Teeth Sea to Shining Sea:…
Meet the Team
FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION GUEST EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia COPY EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim ARTS & PHOTOGRAPHY Ene Ochayi (Nigeria) Agbo Yahdiogo (Nigeria) Alvaro Macieira…