Glissade

He smokes until he sees something moving in the smoke, remembers Joy like blindness: swimming at Jazeera Beach, gorging on belonging, barwaaqo, iftiin. He remembers riding through Suuqa Bakaaraha on a motorbike, held onto by women with hair trailing behind them like black smoke. It’s raining in London again, Hassan Aden Samatar sings from a …

When the second punch meets K’s lips, he is still imagining this is not happening.

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

War

When they walked into the cathedral, God watched them walk. When the bullets prepared to leave the gun, they left the gun. The prayers shielded nothing. The father against his son shielded nothing. The bullet will always obey, find a way through the body's anxious defense. I am tired of writing about my country. Every …

After the ambush you still hear whispers of his songs

Abba Kyari told me he was going to have a crucial meeting with the President and some other people on your matter.

ISSUES

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