I watch darkness approach as the clock ticks. Tick tock, tick tock, tick… A chill breeze passes through, causing my body to shudder. My eyes were fixed at the door. For a moment, the ticking disappeared, and silence hung, and then footsteps [...]

They would like to think that I do not know myself. That the madness has completely taken over my senses, my ego and my being. I sit in a corner now, beside my favourite sofa in the living room, pushing myself into the blissful softness of its [...]

Langa was the heart of the struggle, a neighbourhood in the Western Cape where the scent of freedom mingled with the smell of oppression. It was 1989, a year before Nelson Mandela would be released from prison, and the Apartheid government was [...]

Over the noise of the grinding machine, I hear my sister scream to her little girl to get her some water. Their raucous conversation is what wakes me from my sleep. I am not surprised to find, after the past few months, that my rest is no longer [...]

February 14th before, February 14th after and February 14th now. All seemed the same. It was on ‘February 14th now’ that he stepped out of Peter Singogo Correctional Facility. It had been his home for the past five years. He had served for his [...]

I frowned at Mrs. Rose Rod’s cart. What are you cleaning? “Hello, Tee.” Mrs. Rod waved to me as if I was miles away from her. “Still hiding your eyes? It does nothing but tell that they’re swollen.” I straightened my black goggles. “My eyes are [...]

“Mo gbadura pe o ko gbagbe ara rẹ.” Words meant to serve as a carapace, a reminder of self, yet bent on haunting for an eternity. Iya–fondly renamed Iya Tógùn by Tọ́ṣọ̀ and the rest of her siblings as a tribute to their first brother who they [...]

“That’s really you!” Mma pointed to the television and clapped. “Yup,” Marie said, smiling. She had worked so hard to get to the cooking championship show; this was the semi-final competition, and she had made it to the top 6 best chefs so far. [...]

“I have always feared change. But why the embrace now?” She looked at him hoping that all the hatred she felt towards him then was conveyed. The message was passed. He could feel each one of her intense emotions through her heated stare. The [...]

Pink and blue balloons hung from the ceiling and white roses were set as centerpieces for the tables. Diffusers deflected air that smelt like lavender and strings of sparkling crystals hung from wall to wall. There was a food station of pastries [...]

She was roused from her slumber by the loud crowing of the rooster. The rowdy rooster was in the other room, which served as an indoor pen, yet it had sounded like it crowed directly into her ear through a powerful megaphone. She pressed her [...]

We moved like a river of broken dreams across the scorched earth, thousands of us fleeing the eastern borders of our homeland. Once proud citizens of Bermuda, now reduced to wanderers in our own country. The afternoon sun beat down mercilessly [...]