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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/12

Fever | Sarah Lubala | Poetry

In a Bali hotel room I shed electricity some quirk of the medication tends and stokes kindles against me The tongue also is a fire through the year’s slow teeth all the days of my life speak against me See fire eat fire see it set the whole course of a life on fire […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/11

Death’s Swoop | Andile Ndlovu | Fiction

On the morning of our mother’s funeral, three women showed up unannounced and unavoidably. Three women I had seen before. Three women my mother would not have seen before. But they would have seen her. My mom was just that kind of woman. Like a big and bright red apple in a pile of […]

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Features, Nonfiction, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/10

A Dead Deer from the Past | Romeo Oriogun | Memoir

WHEN HE PASSED BY ME FOR the first time, I was on my second glass of Venus Portion, a cocktail made out of ginger beer, vodka, cherries, and something else. I swear I wasn’t drunk, I swear he looked at me or maybe inside my head I made him look at me with his brown eyes. […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/10

A God & a Poem About Wine | Michael Akuchie | Poetry

You are perched on your couch, wine glass in hand, red liquid floating. You question the world for always being a brick wall, a cluster of uncontrolled voices declaring war on your name. It is about walking into a noisy room & not finding your voice. Because they say you wear the plague […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/10

Will You Tell Us That You’re OK? | Khadijat Haliru | Fiction

On Wednesday, the cramps come out on top and accomplish what they haven’t in years. They sap Annie of all her mighty reasons to live. They grab her and lock her down. They leave her immobile in bed, unable to breathe properly or skim her textbooks, unable to play Candy Crush or gorge herself […]

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Features, Fiction, Fiction - Anthology, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/05

Songbird | Acan Innocent Immaculate | Fiction

Acan Innocent Immaculate’s “Songbird” is taken from Go the Way Your Blood Beats, an anthology edited by Anathi Jongilanga and forthcoming on Brittle Paper. 1. HOME IN THE OLD days, you knew when you gave birth to a musambwa. Before it released its first bewitching cry, before the liquor was cold on its skin, your mothers wrenched […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/02

The Uprooting of Us | Keith Mundangepfupfu | Nonfiction

Dear IsheAnesu, You recently turned two, June 5th, and I was not there for your birthday. At first, it did not affect me that much, until I started to think about what to get you for a gift. I was sitting in a subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn, tired, frustrated, feeling alone, and thinking about […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News, Stories and Poems 2019/01/21

Read Chapter One of Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities

Chigozie Obioma’s second novel An Orchestra of Minorities was published this January. As part of The Summer Library’s “selected extracts from the best new books this summer,” The Monthly has provided a part of the first chapter of the novel. The chosen section is titled “The Woman on the Bridge.” _________________________________________________________________________ The Woman on the Bridge […]

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