Glissade

“Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise. . .” — Ecclesiastes Nigeria’s literary X comes alive a few times every year. And it’s a carnival. You feel a thrill just following the thing. But it’s even more exhilarating to join, to have an opinion—you feel triumphant, like Ulysses after he cut up …

Everything was planned. She had forced death’s hand to travel from left to right.

She knew it was me who took our stepmom’s bottle of kayan mata and poisoned it.

You are becoming a version of a person okay with the passing of a father.

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