YOUR BODY TOO IS A HOME
Each morning, I eat the past with my breakfast and gulp my wishes with them. The more I chase them, the more they grow thorns on the basement of my...
Author: Afristories
Two Short Stories: The City of Steel and Once Upon A City
In Bak, the city of steel, the sky was always gray and the air was filled with the sound of clanging metal and the hiss of steam. The streets were...
Flash Fiction: An Eye for An Eye
She shouldn’t have been out that night. Anyone with half a wit knew this; the EruOro were not deities to be toyed with. Jola, especially, knew this. So it was...
Flash Fiction: Flowers of Oblivion
“I can’t save you if you don’t want to save yourself,” said the voice on the other side of the phone. The line crackled and a monotonic voice softly said that there was...
Flash Fiction: The House Hunter
You woke up to the sound of silence. You rubbed your sleepy eyes with your ball fisted hands and peered into the dark. What was that noise? The silence that...
Flash Fiction: Daymare
It is not every day you come back from school and find your father with a knife in his right hand and your mother, lying in the pool of her...
Flash Fiction: I Wrote to My Queen
A letter, marked in gold and copper. At the corners, I write my name in the spidery writing she knows to be mine. I dispatch it to the nearest cobweb...
Flash Fiction: Fresh Meat
He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. Gorgeous brown skin, thick eyebrows and equally thick eyelashes, and eyes that shone like stars. His shoulders were broad enough...
Short Story: Kept On Digging
It’s often easy to tell the difference between an accidental crash and the shattering that occurs with the force of anger behind it. Looking up from my yard, with the...
Flash Fiction: The Gift from Ntazi
I was born like this. My parents tried their best to suppress it, but it manifested regardless. Since I discovered that I was like this, I transform 80% of the...
