Rigging, you whisper. Corruption. Tribalism.
Tony was a divorcee and men like that often had no qualms about walking a second time.
She said he was quiet when her husband gave up his job at Dinah and followed another woman home.
Apropos of writing an essay on the experience of plodding through a difficult time in my life, I have been thinking about what suffering means for the artist. The process of writing that essay, as one would expect, was a dark affair layered with distress and pain. I wrote in spurts, never steadily, as both …
This year’s shortlisted stories are, in particular, products of a severe depression in the prize’s character.
She knew it was me who took our stepmom’s bottle of kayan mata and poisoned it.
We were all African women in that room, and it has always been clear to us that your sex life does not fully belong to you.
