By Nurain Oladeji Download pdf, mobi, epubAt the threshold where land Provokes sea, waves birthRipples of looming uncertainties-Soil, water, and otherClashing realities of time.Lured to stay loyalTo memories of air, lungs, gasps,Heaving chest: antidotes of death.Alligators ditch …
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Theories of Death
By Kelvin Enumah, Download pdf, mobi, epubYou are gripped by a fear,the voice of life is all you hear;trade yo’ birthday for one more year.The fear of losing out makes you tire,holding your beloved in burdensome …
Swoop
By Stephen Derwent Partington Download pdf, mobi, epubGripping, swung, the eagle hungupended on a Weaver’s nest,its talons curled, a potter’s palms,hooked beak inside the entrance.Wings, the panic of the colony,the hatchling snatched and dead,one nest left swingingwith the shaking of a …
Hunting with Masai
By Charles Bane, Jr. Download pdf, mobi, epubDawn is spear andshield and gun recklesslyleft behind. We move in asingle line. Last nightthey chased away amissionary and we lay.Mine is the god of the HebrewsI explained, mountain …
Men Die When They Fall In Love
by Lule Raymond Download pdf, mobi, epubI do not feel my legs. I think it’s them that landed first. It seems as though flying …
The Miracle of Fear
By Bode Asiyanbi Download pdf, mobi, epubRasaki knew something had gone wrong as he ejaculated but what exactly, he could not place. Was it the grandfather clock that chimed eight times at one o’clock, or the …
When the Circus Comes toTown
By Zoë Gadegbeku Download pdf, mobi, epub“Hmmmm can you imagine? Look away my daughter! This isn’t for your eyes!”“Ei! Is this how people are? How can you just leave it like that?”“Darling I thought I read somewhere …
Our Example
By Lutivini Majanja Download pdf, mobi, epubThe houses were identical. Each house had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a sitting room and a dining room. The people who built these houses had put single unit servants’ quarters behind …
She Who Had Gone Far
By Perpetual Murray Download pdf, mobi, epub“You’re going to have to carry her home,” Mbaita whispered to Beauty’s mother. “She fell asleep the moment I parted her hair to begin plaiting the first row.”Amake Beauty …