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Time is Not Your Healer | Muti’ah Badruddeen

  • January 30, 2023
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TW: Death by firearms This week, on another inescapable anniversary, I realise I have spent more of my life without my father than I have lived with him. I want…
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Lost Things

  • January 30, 2022
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Ever since Glory and Gloria matured into children old enough to envision the appearance of evil, their mother told them how evil Mr Okoro was. She described his evil with…
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Where the Dead Can Finally Die

  • September 29, 2021
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  ii [12:00am] A boy cannot ignore the tantrums in every repose. Nothing remains calm that is calm forever. Even the Dead: His father, ghost-rizzling into the dried leaves     …
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Dear Brother

  • September 29, 2021
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(After Hassan Taiwo) for my brother, Ariyo Sodiq Bodies wrinkled into the hands of time, flung into different paths like the dispersal of birds at the throw of small stones…
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