Of Robots and War
For My Parents and ALL My Grandparents. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. The Book of Job 1:21 I can’t be sure of the actual date my…
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…
Staying Away from Fire
The phone rang as soon as I disembarked from the kombi. I cursed playfully under my breath when I noticed who it was from. I already knew what she wanted.…
The Children Won’t Go Hungry
Njoro was drunk again. She could hear him and his drinking buddies singing very loudly and in the wrong key those old school songs they loved. They were probably in…
Men Who Read God’s mind
On the eve of her traditional engagement to Pastor Charles, her mother called Magdalene into her room and told her that there were worlds between worlds. Children arrived through one…
The Fetus or O Feto
Translated by Cliff E. Landers THE FETUS It’s true, that fetus lying there on the ground wasting away in the middle of the garbage, was mine, yes sir, why should…
Babylon is a Bitch
That doctor’s surgery was always full, but it was made worse today by the start of the Christmas holidays. It needed only one child to come down with a…
The Banishment
You are trembling by the threshold of the shrine. The night holds the rain up, but its wind spreads the moisture over your back. Behind you, out in the yard,…
Facelessness
It was a faceless time when we moved into the new compound that March, Ray and I, carrying our luggage in two great Ghana-must-go bags, and a carryall. In another…