Category: Short Stories

The clouds are dark and ominous and the weather is unforgivingly cold. My fingers are frozen and my legs feel like two blocks of ice. I drag myself

I am no longer the girl who had her life put together: the fun loving girl who used to find happiness in small things. I am no longer

The first time a girl knocked on our door asking for me, mama was ecstatic—she couldn’t stop smiling: being the only son you would think she would have

I sit hunched in a corner at the subway my eyes darting for signs of a good Samaritan while at the same time trying to hide from the

I want to do this book review differently, it explores the quality of life and I want to paint a picture of how fleeting life can get without

Also published on Brittle Paper I’m running late, I have just lied to baba again, I do that a lot of times nowadays. Baba doesn’t understand that I

You’re in high school, but you’re not like the rest of us. The rest of us who are shipped off to some remote boarding school in the middle

First published on Brittlepaper Mutiso has just caved into our house. He was fixing the roof, and he didn’t know the roof was made of clay. He has