First, I travelled with eyes closed I dreamt of setting a tiny bird free from its cage The bird hopped out, nibbled on fallen grain, grew bigger, taller, as I watched I was nearly...

The way this story ends is I end up in Barcelona, wondering how I can learn Spanish in 10 days, looking around this sunny seaside city in awe that somehow, my little unassuming...

- I - She could not remember the exact moment she forgot her name, or what time it was, what she was doing, what she was thinking But she was sure she was running or thinking of...

“Basquiat would approve” “What” “The hair” “You like” “No It is pretentious as fuck” “I am sorry, what” “But it is Basquiat’s...

I Other people die and stay dead Others leave and never come back But not Farah, my younger brother, who left one day and only came back after he was dead At first, I thought I...

The boat drifted on the endless sea, lugging the twelve remaining passengers Seven men Four women And a child, seemingly asleep in its mother’s arms The sea had carried them for...

Nothing makes you think about where else you want to live quite like an election No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark You only run for the border / when you...

1 If you ask me how my navel ring ended up in the back seat of his blue Subaru I will pretend I do not remember 2 We are on our way to class My mouth feels salty again Just...

by Jane Doe ----- I am in Mama’s stomach but she doesn’t know this yet The day she will find out she will tell Baba and he will kick her so hard that I will die I will...

Mutembei keenly observes Mombasa beneath the inexorable sun, a town clinging on its designated part on the warm palms of Mama Africa, trying- like any other metropolitan- to curve...