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30 stories

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Essential Worker

2nd April, 2020 who will feed her children…..where will the money come from this dismal fore day morning…… if she stay home….she’ll stand…

Yvonne Weekes·May 11, 2020
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Imogene

I. The Fisherman MOISE SAT ON THE ROCK, his fishing line trailing beneath the surface of the water. The sea was calm this morning but he…

Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald·March 24, 2019
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Snowball Effect

Photo Copyright © 2018 by twentysixdollars.com. “I LOST MY BRIEFCASE with my all of my notes!” Mort cried, bursting through the front door.…

Nailah Folami Imoja·November 4, 2018
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Welcome to Male

Photo Copyright © 2017 by Horace I. Goddard. IN THE NORTH OF KENYA is Male. It is near the equator in the Rift Valley. The land is flat and…

Horace I. Goddard·November 25, 2017
The ArtsEtc NIFCA winning Words Anthology 2015/2016

WINNING WORDS: PEEZOFF IS DEAD (EXCERPT)

“Best eulogy I ever heard,” I heard over and again as I mingled with mourners at the entrance to the church. His family was excessive in…

Edison T. Williams·September 4, 2017
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2015/2016

WINNING WORDS: Tameisha’s Lesson (Excerpt)

Chapter Two School Life “Anna Puckering?” “Present.” “Danika Reece?” “Here.” “Tameisha Rouse?… Tameisha Rouse?” “She isn’t here yet,…

Zoanne Evans·September 4, 2017
Economist excerpt, accompanying image, Allison Cadogan author

The Economist, an excerpt

Benji, Fluffy and Squid IT WAS another Saturday morning. The side door closed and Mum was off to town as the theme tune of Julia struck up.…

Allison Cadogan·January 24, 2016
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Hands Over Heart

Illustration Copyright © 2015 by Marlo Hunte. SMELL LEAKED OFF OF HER like disease. Those who sat close by held their bodies away,…

Nicola Hunte·December 13, 2015
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Winning Words:

Robert Edison Sandiford·July 7, 2015
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TURPENTINE AND STEW PANTY (Winning Words 2013/14 preview)

The red herring odour of unwashed womanhood and blood hung in the air around the Smith’s house in the village next to the white-man…

Latoya Brathwaite·July 7, 2015
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FROM EVENING OVER LUXOR

EARLY IN JANUARY nineteen t’irty-seven, t’ings change. It was tense befo’e, but it get worse now, an’ t’ings gettin’ real bad ’pon de…

Ronald A. Williams·May 10, 2015
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FROM IT NOT ALWAYS BADLUCK (IN MEMORIAM FOR CHARLIE MATTHEWS)

I had an uncle named Charlie and anything electrical, mechanical that went wrong with a little solder there a piece of wire here, pliers or…

Marc Matthews·May 8, 2015