Heritage n. ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒ
Heritage n. ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒA Compressed Dictionary (Select Entries) ofN. N. Edozien Ancestor [ˈansɛstə] noun 1. a historical figure whose blood “flows through my veins” and whose life I…
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(death is no parenthesis)
(death is no parenthesis) la. She sat still and asked him not to stir when she saw who was calling, and when he giggled, she asked him to shush, her face suddenly the stern glare of polished…
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Arrhythmia
The nights when those penetrable walls whispered to me, everything became hyperreal, like the moment after the seventh cup of coffee when the heart misses its rhythm by a nanosecond and the…
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Guidelines for Dating an Alien Girl
You know, when a person has insight into a delicate matter, it becomes their moral responsibility to share such knowledge with people. This is why pundits are asked on television to talk about…
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Ballads of Obliteration
Before 2013 and Loss and We are sorry On a newly reframed black & white portrait of you, sitting on a bedside table— lengths of your hijab stretches to the marbled floor Incense smoke…
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A Separation in 7 Fragments
Week 1. Our first date is in Yaba. Car horns blare outside the congested intersection as we climb the air-conditioned stairs of Domino’s Pizza, me ahead of you. I am self-conscious because my…
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Five Shorts
Planting Season Our task was to plant things we believed would never grow but looked as if they would. One of us planted a can of De Rica tomatoes. We suppose in a few months you would be…
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