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The Miracle of the Tomb | Kwame Boateng

  • November 29, 2023
  • The Shallow Tales Review
Weight is the test result wrapped around my ankle, dragging my body into the liquid abyss. My father’s tongue squeezes me into a prayer point and this, too, shatters my…
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To My Little Boy | Ewoenam Akahoho

  • November 29, 2023
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Listen. the trees do not grow because there is an abundance of growing tied to the waist of the universe Or, the tortoise taking its unhurried, indecisive steps, believing so…
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When You Are Dying | Dmitry Blizniuk

  • November 29, 2023
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Poetry reading by Uche Anaekwe When you are dying, the electric snow of oblivion falls slowly on the soft apricot pores of the brain that is growing cold. The snowfall…
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Not It | John Paul Caponigro

  • November 29, 2023
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It’s not an it and neither am I. Nature is a verb, I am a doing. I’m done with it. It is half of the shit we do to us.…
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Landscape of the Partisan | Junaid Ahmed Ahangar

  • November 29, 2023
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Words fall off this knitting needle as I spin a yarn of moonlit memories the stitches keep growing larger and before I know I have spun myself a sweater made…
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Ajegunle | Abdullah Jimoh O.

  • November 29, 2023
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Two three-storey buildings having a street              splinter them like a sternum dividing the ribs, peer into the eyes of each other with                       candidness. I live in one of them, the…
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A Portrait of a Group of Girls | Khaloud Al-Muttalibi

  • November 29, 2023
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Two years after Tal Afar’s liberation from ISIS, Zhiyan, the young woman who survived the most brutal attack, painted a disturbing portrait of a group of girls. The crimson-red slams…
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A Lesson on Gratitude | I Echo

  • November 29, 2023
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“I came here because Ghanaians are having difficulties and suffering. It is my responsibility to try and help because if it is a question of counting who votes for me…
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Jakande Roundabout | Nike Onwu

  • June 29, 2023
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The man in the sticker on the inner rib of the bus promises to soften the cracked palms of our lives— make the people we love love us back, cure…
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Ninety-Third Sermon on Strength | Goodnews Karibo

  • June 29, 2023
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What single thing do you reach out for in the dark hallway of your head steeped in chaos?   Do the days unwind through bouts of jagged edges of depression?…
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