Saadatu Ibrahim – Zahira
At the age of five, Zahira died. * * * ‘‘Zahira, Zahira, open your eyes, my love.’’ His voice, like...
Phoebe A. Xavier – Silver Lining
2458 Terran Standard Time Our Lady of Impeccable Diagnosis Publik Hospital Olympus City, IKP Sector, Mars Dr. Beatrice Konevi approached...
Holden Williams – Absence of Grace
PRELUDE A soul adrift, lost at sea, Yearning for a sense of grace, But finds only discord and disarray, In...
Olusola Akinwale – A Journey to Her Final Home
Edward trudged along the linoleum floor of the hospital corridor—past the familiar wailing of the bereaved, past sunken people propped...
Zamo Gina – The House of the Land
I Of all my many, many treacherous voyages and journeys across ravenous seas and dark oceans, seldom have I come...
Abigail George – The Waking
In the dream, Mariel felt as if she was hiking alone in the mountains. Something was said. Something was not...
Joseph Jegede – Arinfesesi
Tade has been looking forward to this day for a while, and now he is glad it is finally here,...
Zeddekia Ssekyonda – Waiting on Fate
11 PM. Lubega is sitting singly on a settee in one corner of Club Ambience, a half-filled paper cup in...
Thandie Mvundla – Famished
Things began to change the moment Thandie’s mother left for the diaspora. One day, she came home holding a document,...