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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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…
Echoing Silence | Abu Ibrahim
My appetite for silence is eating away my tongue Things don’t have to be spoken to be said Things don’t have to be said to be spoken This is how…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
