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Oghosa Osadebamwen

Perfect Submission

Another child has been killed by yet another house-help – this time they are both males. The boy, a child of 3, was placed inside

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Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi

Aunty Philo

At exactly twelve noon, she was found dead. Sitting all by herself, a fat old cat resting at the foot of her chair; oblivious of

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Mohammad Haruna

A Taste of Africa

It was a refreshing morning. As always: the morning breeze blew through my opened window, the dust, the scent of wet sand embedded on my

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Ivan Jenson

Welcome to Pine Rest

Jake was forty-two and in the throes of his second nervous breakdown when he arrived at the Gerald Ford airport looking so haggard and strung-out

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Mehreen Ahmed

Turin Frog

The rain dripped; drip, drip, drip. The sound distracted me from watching a movie on TV, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, laying on the sofa, in

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Shaheeka Shariff

The Blue Carpet

Inviting guests over is common and it is basically saying you are a part of our family now. And refusing the invitation is considered rude

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Mehreen Ahmed

Blue Butterflies

The war ate the 14-year-olds. Such were the days, when young boys wielded swords and died on these dusts. Politicians, drunk in the revelry of

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Nuha Faiz

Unforeseen

‘Funny how you’ve got to get your heart broken ninety-nine times to feel numb on your hundredth’, she tweeted. Letting her long black hair on

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Feelings
Nuskiya Nasar

Sacred Envy

“Sometimes we portray ourselves as the bad person in order to make others happy, most importantly in order to make our loved ones happy because

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Prose
Douglas Cole

The Blew Eagle Cafe

I drove down to the Blew Eagle cafe, knowing it was risky, wanting it to be.  Traffic howled on the bridge overhead. There were freighter

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Bright Greatman

A Ring from my Romeo – a Play

** Characters ** LORD CAPULET LADY CAPULET JULIET, their daughter TYBALT CAITLIN, Juliet’s servant LAWRENCE, a Psychiatric doctor LORD MONTAGUE LADY MONTAGUE ROMEO, their son

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Love
Humaith Cassim

A Lover’s Curse

Abid swerved into the driveway, putting the car into park. Now for any other day, his brother Jaber would have taken it easy knowing that

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