Tag: Fiction

  • Inconclusive by Neil James

    Inconclusive by Neil James

    When Dr Rajan gave me the scan results, that wasn’t the word I was waiting for. It is, of course, better than the other word. The other word slowly killed my dad. It turned his skin grey, erased his body cell by cell, until one day last winter, pumped full of morphine, he faded away…

  • Ismaila of Angwa-Dodo by Fatima Okhuosami

    Ismaila of Angwa-Dodo by Fatima Okhuosami

    Ismaila slipped on a puddle of dog piss, landing face-down on his neighbour’s bingo. His rectum, hosting a potpourri of cassava, bitter leaf soup and sukudai, pushed hard against his anus. It was still dark out and the muezzin of Angwa-Dodo central mosque was singing the call to prayers in a loud, one-note wail. “Who…

  • Pretend but Feels Like Real by Karen Baumgart

    Pretend but Feels Like Real by Karen Baumgart

    Today was my six-years-old party day! Mum and Aunt May had got Frozen party hats and paper plates and made cupcakes with Elsa and Anna flags. I love Anna the best, even though Jeremy thinks Frozen is a stupid girls’ movie and teases me for liking it. But Mum said I could have any kind…