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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission March 24, 2020

Midas & The Prodigal Daughter | Isabelle Baafi | Two Poems

Midas the legend was not always true there was a time when empires were built on dreams and prophesies and palaces held together with no more than spit and mud and wealth no hand had touched sprang from the earth and so it was with ours although the whispers in our trees told […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission March 23, 2020

For Whom The Bells Toll | Romeo Oriogun | Nonfiction

ON ONE OF the coldest days during winter, I sat opposite a Cambodian scholar who had run to exile for his political views. His dissent against the government of Cambodia led him to organize a political organization with a friend. With his friend having been assassinated, he ran away with his wife to a country […]

Paper Horses | Dan Ajamo | Poetry

I wrote little notes on skin For him to follow Little notes to guide his path As he wandered through the Landscape of flesh— A hundred Doors Waiting to be broken. And what is love? Is it not every fibre of his being? A flame burning in the darkest room? His eyes are the […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission March 16, 2020

Sanctuary | Obasa Funmilayo | Poetry

Where does my Sanctuary live? within the catacombs of / my body / where voices are carried / by a wind / and silence is an / anthem What does the Sanctuary say? it says / my existence is a temple / of flowers / of water / of life and death / of […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission March 12, 2020

Dying To Become | Ogbonna Ogochukwu | Poetry

We wanted to fill up our shoes Those ones our mothers bought To win the battle with our growth And the jackets too We waited for the day when their sleeves Stopped going past our wrist to our fingers So, we measured our shoulders against each other We wore our mothers lipstick And pretended that […]

The First Citizen | ‘Kunmi Olamiju | Fiction

11th of April To: The First Citizen, Humble Comrade Bolongo From: His Excellency, President for Life, Supreme Field Marshall, Doctor Erugegeaye Amin the First, Conqueror of the People’s Economic Woes and Eternal Defender of the Final Revolution. I write this letter to you, my dear friend, hoping it meets you in good health. I […]

Physics Textbook Explains Why People Can’t Leave Abusive Marriages | Abdulbaseet Yusuff | Poetry

i. origin of F F/A = Stress In this poem & in your life, the letter F is everything— F for the force that brews inside a clenched fist lowercase f for frequency: the number of times that fist remodels your jaw Today my head is buried between the algebraic union in […]

A Journey in Desire | Iretomiwa Xaron | Nonfiction

THAT AFTERNOON, I was performing a repetitive task. I was on the internet searching for LGBTQ+ movies. The best, I told myself, as I typed a bunch of search terms into my Chrome browser. The results came out in less than a second. “13 Best LGBT+ Movies of 2019.” Scroll, scroll, scroll. To the bottom. […]

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