Search Results for: The birds did not sing

The Great Cocktail

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Her lips were darker than her areola. But not dark enough to make you notice. Regardless, she remained very insecure about them. She imagined it’s the first thing people noticed about her. Not her dreadlocks that stood on top

Dreams

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When men come for men, the boys hide. And often when boys hide they continue hiding for the rest of their lives for war is a dark cloud that never shifts. Dramatic novels talk of the wailing of drums

An African Road

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Their first major row was about the wedding. He wanted a massive affair with 500 people because he’s a popular fellow who knows everyone, but even more critically, who is known by everyone. They couldn’t enter a restaurant, a

Little Hope

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“I don’t want a child who looks like that.” That’s what he told Rose when he first saw their infant baby, born with a cleft lip. He had come to visit the new mother and baby after all the

Eloise

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Have you ever gone searching for someone you didn’t know? You didn’t have a face, or a name or a photo tucked in your wallet, no last address, no trail, nothing. All you have had were stories that precede …