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Grieving for the Grave
Trembling hands caressed the child’s orange overall. Asha nuzzled its velvet smoothness across her saddened face. Grief had made her usual coffee-colored face pale and lifeless. A familiar lingering odor […] More
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in Agriculture, Farming and Gardening, Business and Entrepreneurship, Community & Opinion, Fiction, Identity & Culture, War and ConflictSindi’s Story
It was a cold, stormy night and I had just returned from the Sacrament of Penance. Mum decided that she would sit with me and nobody else in my room […] More
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in Fiction#SSWCIII – His Slave, their Queen by Margaret Wamanga
Surrounded by a thick security detail, with her shoulders back, her head held high and a slight constant smile playing on her lips as her eyes skimmed through the adoring, […] More
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in Fiction‘Writing Your Story’ by Ophelia Kemigisha
Last weekend, I was attending a discussion in a room with a view of the street and a nearby field. On the tables, almost everyone had pairs of shades and […] More
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BANAL LIVING
More often than not, he dreamt. Not necessarily the proverbial future life prospects, but he dreamt grisly things; he saw things that were unpleasant in his sleep. The nightmares awoke […] More
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in FictionWAKAYIMA OF TROPICAL HILLS ACADEMY Ep 13: NATALIA HAD A SWEET
Episode 12 Natalia had a mint. Not the chewing gum mints, the ones you suck. The sweet mints. Now, there were three problems here. One is that few people sell […] More
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Gipiir and Labongo #13
By Mugabe Victor “I heard a rumor. Is it true?” “Yes, saw it with my own eyes; that boy is insane. No spear, no armor, Gipiir bit the elephant like […] More
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Sons of the gods #18
Continued from #17 By Ashley Katabani’s eyes dropped once more. He felt himself falling, falling but he was not hitting hard ground. What was this unfamiliar place? It was too […] More
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in Fiction‘Dother’ by Qwemy Tuki
The door to a black Land Cruiser Cygnus closed on a Monday morning with as much noise as ash descending on the earth. Sid thought he’d heard something but dismissed […] More
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Sons of the gods #15
Continued from #14 By Ashley Katabani blankly stared at the darkness before him. “The way of the man,” he thought to himself. One time it is this; then it changes […] More
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Breaking Glass, Saaleha E Bamjee
This is one of the stories that came out of the Writivism 2014, a project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, with the assistance of several partner organisations, which identifies, trains and engages […] More
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WAKAYIMA OF TROPICAL ACADEMY EP 6: WAKAYIMA TAKES P.E. CLASS
Continued from Ep 5 Wakayima was in a very jolly mood when he got to school, unlike the other students, because, unlike everyone else, he didn’t have to worry about […] More
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BITE YOUR TONGUE
Been writing a lot of thematically complex stuff, heavy on the descriptions and mood and all that. So here is a short story I wrote to clear the palate as […] More
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Just another chapter
As I closed my eyes, a peculiar sensation engulfed me, as though I were being swept away by an invisible current through the river of time. The world around me […] More
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The Boy From the Other-side
The Boy From the Other-side I stand at the other-side And call out loud. A heart of love possession Where love is sufficient unto love. The echo in my voice […] More
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Sisters are Taking Care of Business
Disclaimer: I was in the middle of a long note, and kept getting side-tracked. It was probably going to be the longest thing I had written so far, and needed […] More
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The Night Rider
You are on your fifth #TGIF drink. The music is getting liter, the crowds voices louder, the inhibitions less. That’s when the text of the booty call variety comes through. It sounds […] More
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