STAND UP. BUT BEFORE YOU DO, whisper excuses into Baby's right ear, like the need to stretch your aching jo…

dear grief, I didn't leave you at the docks because I forgot you I didn't walk with scraggy legs  m…

LIGHTNING CRASHED AS TORRENTIAL RAIN annulled my view. Thunderous echoes filled the air.  Melinda was fast …

Authored by Leonardo G. Luccone Translation from Italian by Sabrina Fountain HIS SISTER IS IN passenger car 19 …

AKWAEKE KNEW THIS HAD HAPPENED sometime ago, a dream maybe or a memory. All she knew was that her heart was…

I WOULD LIKE TO set something straight before we start discussing the… unusual conundrum I found myself in …

We sit in cancer ward unworried about covid-19, possessed by a more consuming foe. We do not look at others…

SANDRA STRUTS DOWN THE aisle with that look on her face. Satisfaction. Guided by her dad, she pitches her entir…

THE UNWANTED CHILD Dumped in the waste bin/ Amidst the filthy garbages/ Disposed like an egg timber/ Boiled wit…

O NLY THE CANDLELIGHT ILLUMINATED the room.  A small, bug-infested bed lay at one of its corners. The room lo…

IT'S BEEN OVER A YEAR since they lost what would have been their third child—their first girl. Their tw…