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Loss

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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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The Children Won’t Go Hungry

  • November 29, 2021
  • The Shallow Tales Review
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…
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The Argo

  • November 29, 2021
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For a brief second, the sky resembled a slumbering monster rudely awakened. Its grey teeth, our ashen sky. Its hulking mass, our darkest afternoon, feeding on our fear and misery…
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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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The Fetus or O Feto

  • September 29, 2021
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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…
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