People

The Mountain

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On their very first date he arrived carrying a curtain rod. It was at the Java in Galleria Mall and it was about to start raining. She had sat in a booth facing the doorway so she could see

The Light

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Mothers and grandmothers all over the country dutifully wake up at 3am to pray for their adult children and grandchildren in the city. They pray for them to meet someone to marry. They had wanted, nay, demanded, for someone

Three Tortoises and Other Stories

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To create art is to embrace the seduction of solitude. To dare to be different. However, to create amazing art, to create with your mind and then hands, is to invite all the demons of being different and be

The Evangelist

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By Eddy Ashioya

It’s me. Again. By now I should just have my own guest bedroom with the SpongeBob bedsheets. I am like that half-remembered ex with main character energy, who, as everyone’s greatest girlfriend—Beyoncé—once said, ‘bado niko

Small Dog

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Folklore has it that when the white man showed up in my village they found my great-grandfather, Okeyo, naked. He was herding cattle on a hill in Kendu Bay, leaning on a staff. He might or might not have