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Missing your lover who left for law school nine months ago, you search for solace in music but find only memories. Adele's song stirs your emotions, but doubts creep in until you see her photo.

The country was wide and empty. The occasional sound of the wild echoed through the low hills. You could hear the river gurgling, strangling its watery way through the savage rocks.

In the days of his unfurling, Chibudo, anaemic as the world had made him, became one with the wind, floating cynically; a pollution to the human population; a desecration of holy things; a defilement; a profanation.

It happens like this: a woman swallows a city whole and becomes dust. You wake up one morning and realise she swallowed you too

They sit over the fire in a conspiratorial huddle. Snippets of conversation interspaced with loud, hearty laughter waft towards them in the insaka - the round, thatched outdoor shelter used as a kitchen

This is how it begins: a moonless night, a gathering of dark clouds snuffing out even the tiniest starlight, the sky an unending spread of inky blackness.