I slipped through today. When it gets hard, remind me it’s not suicidal to live. Tell me of hope, of dreams and longing, Tell me my hands will grow, long enough to grab the things, that for now are beyond my reach, like the love I long for endlessly. Tell me my heart won’t […]
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Broken | Gerald Onyebuchi | Fiction
In the cool of the evening you met him. At a pub, a corner all by himself, gulping down shots of tequila. Only a gap separated you from him— a gap accompanied by a stifling silence. A gap, which melted away the moment he said hi! You flashed a hand at him. He reminded you […]
Handkerchief | Sharon Rose | Fiction
My boyfriend, last of his mother’s six children, fourteenth of his father’s nineteen, bought his mother a house. So, we drove amped on psychedelics and youth, in a seven-car convoy to a club to celebrate. The song of our convoy’s sirens cut through the muggy night and mingled with the random bursts from the guns […]
On Desperate Pages | Chidinma Divine Iwu | Poetry
Adéperó, Irekànmi envisages that i have been sozzled by the wine from Sobówalé’s keg and have chewed on nuts from Íyin, the ancestral witch who drives men to lunacy. she debates the fidelity of your existence. does she know; she swims in oblivion to your soothing presence swaddling my discomfort and the tranquilizing whispers that […]
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