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in Fiction, Identity & Culture, Politics and Government, Thrillers and Horrors, War and Conflict, Writing and LiteratureLife in Exile Act Four – The Vendetta (Chapter Twenty-Two: Logistics of Theft Management)
Chapter Twenty-Two: Logistics of Theft Management The rain followed us. It followed Peter and me beyond the centre of the settlement, beyond the cooking fires and crowded shelters, beyond the […] More
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in Fiction, Identity & Culture, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Thrillers and Horrors, War and Conflict, Writing and Literature
Life in Exile Act Four — The Vendetta (Chapter Twenty-Five: The Music Therapist)
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Music Therapist Two weeks after the night we discovered that the mind could be used as a weapon, we stopped running. Not because we were safe. Because […] More
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‘Morning Has Broken’ by Dave Ndyanabo
She looked so peaceful. Nothing looked amiss. She cut the most tranquil picture of sleeping beauty if ever there was one. Except she wasn’t sleeping. She was dead. Interesting that […] More
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Amanda, Wonny Arthur
Amanda The past 24 hours ran like a sequence. In flashes. The sunny afternoon. The good man. The sweet, cold drink. The rushed escape. And then, nothing. But only for […] More
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Scars: a short story
Suppose for a moment that you were a cold corpse, with your mastectomy chest flat against an even colder post mortem table. You are yellowish, bluish, grey – your dead […] More
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in Fiction, Identity & Culture, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Thrillers and Horrors, Writing and LiteratureLife in Exile: Act Three – The Return of Shadows(Chapter Seventeen: The Ghost and the Cave (part IV))
Chapter Seventeen: The Ghost and the Cave (part IV) As Peter struggled to recover, my own thoughts began connecting the scattered pieces of a puzzle that had haunted us since […] More
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in Fiction, Politics and Government, Thrillers and Horrors, Travel and Adventure, Writing and Literature
Life in Exile: Act Three – The Return of Shadows
Chapter Fifteen: The Old, the Tired and the Restless Morning arrived quietly over the plains of Namasagali in Kamuli District, though little remained to suggest that this forgotten place had […] More
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#SSWCIII – Kalabanda Carnage by Charity Ace Esenu
Ninjas are silent. Ninjas do not make a sound as they move. Wanyama and I were not ninjas as we stumbled through the overgrown grass behind our dormitory block. Wanyama’s […] More
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‘I Doodled Your Name By Force’ by Naggayi Sanyu Lydia
I doodled your name by force. Yes please. I was not going to be that girl who’d pass through her teenage years without ever doodling a boy’s name in a […] More
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#SSWCIII – House of the Rising Sun by Daniel Nuwamanya
It is 7.30 in the evening. The sun has already disappeared behind the horizon. The night is gathering fast. I can tell from the way the small rhombuses of light […] More
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#SSWCIII – ‘Rock A Bye Baby’ by Charlotte Bossa
Like porridge on fire, your anxiety is bubbling over, turning into froth and steam. You don’t have many friends left. Not since that fit you threw at the last baby-shower. […] More
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#SSWCIII – Deus Ex Machina by Lennox Kesington
CHAPTER I MEMENTO MORI Misery may be manifold, and despair is likely relentless, but there is nothing quite so designed to inspire the supremeness of psychological distress as the fear […] More
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In The Night
It was nightfall. As the darkness crept silently over the village, the last embers of dusk retreating fast into the west, a nervousness took root in the hearts of the […] More
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The Tales of Achelo – Episode 3
Episode 3 Edith recounted to me that the day father died, he had visited grandma in her small hut. She told me that he came back rushing and stopped behind […] More
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in Fiction, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and Government, Thrillers and Horrors, War and ConflictGeneral O: The Ledgend, the Man and the legacy behind.
Major Felix sat behind his polished desk. Papers aligned, pen at rest, posture disciplined. The embassy hummed quietly around him—stone floors, muted flags, corridors smelling of polish and paper. Outside, […] More
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in Fiction, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and Government, Thrillers and Horrors, War and ConflictGeneral O: The Switch
Uganda — the Pearl of Africa, or perhaps Africa itself — is vast only to the ordinary man. To Afande Watmon, the land had once been generous, offering fertile soil, […] More
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The Haunting of Mbarara Hollow
It was 2:18 PM EAT on Friday, August 8, 2025, when the storm rolled over the outskirts of Mbarara, Uganda. My home, a weathered two-story house inherited from my late […] More
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