Glissade

Heartbreak is painful, sure, I believe. But have you ever plugged your phone at night with the conviction it’d be completely charged by dawn, and when morning greets you like a curtsying teenager, you find out it’s exactly at the point you left it the previous night, unmoved and unshaken like mount Kilimanjaro?And what’s worse …

In movies, the actors intertwine lips, and hold the other person’s bodies. You wonder if you should do this. Kendi beats you to it.

These Girls wanted their bosses’ lives, to upset the hierarchy of social order, and climb to positions they were never meant to reach.

She imagined that she was Mary on the run to Egypt to save Baby Jesus.

But these precautions didn’t stop Ekene from dying in his sleep.

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