theshallowtalesreview

(cover photograph direction: Victor Akhere) The Wall When we saw skyscrapers gleaming in the distance, we dug our heels harder into the ground; cheered our bodies   to conquer the…

(cover photograph direction: Victor Akhere) Salama Wainaina is a Kenyan writer and poet who explores human connections by weaving personal reflections and the nuances of everyday life. Her work has…

(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida) Dacious Kasoka is an economist, poet, and machine learning engineer. A 2023 Best of the Net nominee, his poems have been published and are forthcoming…

(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida)   Today, it rains somewhere in Africa. A light bulb flashes weakly on and off. A door opens into tomorrow, But no one enters.  …

(cover photograph direction: Victor Akhere) These waters could cure anything, I swear. Forget the world and its insistence to   conquer. Forget all those teeth. Forget the rejection that had…

(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida) for Muyiwa In this solemn melody of the chapel choir, that carries the ghostly silhouette of his lover, who long passed on — his tears…

(cover photograph direction: Victor Akhere) Three hours after I cross the Atlantic, my sixty-year-old mother falls to her feet. A Good Samaritan dials the last number she called, but I…

(cover photograph direction: Victor Akhere) Beneath the tongue of silence. The heart’s attic collects dust of unsaid things,   And forgotten stars—light bleeding Into the margins of darkness. Poetry blooms…