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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission January 17, 2020

Sumbua | Gloria Mari | Fiction

BEATRICE WATCHES THE parking lot, her ornamental beads jingling. “Is Sumbua coming?” she asks her mother standing beside her. Her mother purses her lips. “I don’t know. But you already have other guests here. Go cater to them.” Beatrice watches the slowly filling parking lot with longing. She hopes her favourite cousin shows up. Mama […]

Monsieur Pierre | Bura-Bari Nwilo | Fiction

“Whenever she gets the urge to forego Roy, she also gets a small dose of mischief, to lie with him one more time, for the last time ever, and she finds herself back to her jail.” Nornu fills her bathtub to its brim with water each time Roy tickles the spot where her creator placed […]

You Should Be a Gift | Ife Olujuyigbe | Fiction

I am staring angrily at your parting lips as sounds escape them. I am asking questions in my head. Can I have just a little piece of yourself, since you’re so full of it? You’re spilling at the sides; can I scrape the top off? How about the side with too much cream and too […]

We Go Love | By Adesewa Adesina | African Poetry

YOU broke my CD yesterday Brymo’s raspy voice spilled out lamenting about merchants, wicked dealers and slaves it was an accident I put too much pepper that night You ate, sweated and cried drinking two bottles of chilled water I cannot measure well You forget your phone a lot more these days and I see […]

Love Is Not Apolitical | Andile Ndlovu | Fiction

THERE was something about Sanele and Kelvin as a couple that made them so intriguing. No, it was not that he was older than her, or that he was a divorcé. Or that they were a multiracial young couple working in the same building (he worked in the advertising department for the umbrella company, which […]