Category: Short Stories

Wanja watches Miriam from the window. The woman her husband has been cheating on her with, and grips the boning knife in her pocket tightly.

Paul walks quickly while looking at his thin watch. He stops a lady on the road. “Can you tell me where Kencom is? I’m late for a date

Mama Kibe moves slowly. For a sixty-year-old woman, she seems to have lived over a century.

She remembers that this venue was his pick for their date. She had wanted a more uppity location but he had insisted on this one.

I didn’t think I would be forty and failing at love, yet here I was at Kasarani Police Station reporting the woman I loved.

The sun was going down in Kangemi and you could hear the drums in Makau’s compound. There were six men and five women of the cloth, singing, praying

Nairobi, December 1990 Nzioka was in distress. He was leaving his young bride behind to go and work for the Nairobi Times newspaper branch in Mogadishu. He looked

Gloria Gloria was innocent, or at least that’s what she showed the world, but in her mind she was in her partying years. Twenty-three, feisty, with a beautiful