Category: Fiction

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Close-Up

  • December 30, 2013

by Adeola Opeyemi   Close-up entered the market in his usual happy self, singing Fela’s Overtake Don Overtake Overtake, flashing brown teeth to the delight of market women. He sat[…]

Fiction

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Feline Nature

  • December 10, 2013

  This came from a conversation I was having with a friend. I joked that I wanted to finish my Phd early and start working, or the alternative was to[…]

Culture and Society · Fiction

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Chiens

  • December 5, 2013

They encircled me like a pack of wolves protecting their territory. “Growl”, the smallest of them snared and I was startled that a sound so loud could come from a[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Reincarnation

  • November 9, 2013

by Kelechi Njoku   Nnanna’s grandfather had died, fifteen years before he was born, of some illness that left him wasted to the bone. At that time there was no photograph[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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JAMB

  • November 9, 2013

by Sylva Nze Ifedigbo   You are peering at the fading lines of the old Economics notebook. You know it is not the lines of the note written in your[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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A Mouse Amongst Men

  • November 9, 2013

by Ivor W. Hartmann   I came to South Africa to survive, fleeing from the stone-cold house my country Zimbabwe had become. I sit here now and watch the traffic[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Touched

  • October 5, 2013

by Kayode Odumboni   “Tell me a story,” I finally spluttered. I was particularly interested in your repetition of those words. I suspected that it was not a coincidence that[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Waiting

  • August 11, 2013

by Paula Varsavsky (Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean) _____ He who sits by the door of his house will watch his enemy ´s corpse go by. (Spanish Proverb) _____[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Living by the Future

  • August 11, 2013

by Nnorom Azuonye There were songs inside his head and songs in the air outside Dartford Station; that cruel mix of screeching tyres, chuckles of train engines, and wailing buggied[…]