Shock Me I Shock You
The new game Oyin and I invented is called Shock-Me-I-Shock-You. We play it whenever our parents aren't around. Often, Daddy is at work, bawling at his students for not understanding ordinary differential…
The Miles Between Us
The KrisFlyer miles of a dead person cannot be redeemed. The woman on the hotline said it as if she was underlining it in red ink with a ruler. She spoke with…
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Arewa Girls
We were girls once. The girls you once saw hawking on the streets of Arewa—selling awara, wainan rogo, dan wake…
Pot Hound Republic
The sun feel uneasy, shining too hard—like it know something coming. I glance up. Corbeaux wheel above the market, wings…
Bitter Water Village
In a rain-soaked village by a restless river, a fifteen-year-old finds her childhood collapsing under the weight of family silence…
The God under the Bed
In an overcrowded family home governed by an unseen god, a young girl comes of age under rigid rules, until…
Pom Pom Peedeem Pom
A Trinidadian bassist flees to Lima to escape his past, but a relentless rhythm follows him across the sea, turning…
Fighting Elsewhere
He could not tell his mother that he lost his job in Prague, or that he is gay, or that…
Translated to English by Arunava Sinha and Shabnam Nadiya 1. The first time Mafiz ran along Kendua’s main road, it didn’t catch the eye of anyone in the village. There could be many reasons for this. For starters, Mafiz was running on a public road. Any of the villagers…