By: Celina Itatiro
My friends warned me about people like you/People wielding a magnetic pull/ summoning everything you desire/to you...
By: Anisa of the Sunflowers
Tears leak out of me in waves/I tear my robe off/ It clings to me/I am naked!
By: Serina Folly
This is why she announces herself like a wound breaking open. With puss, with odour, with ugly blood.
By: Awuor Onguru
My father and I drive in silence. No sound but the grinding of the gears. A car as old as my resentment. He shifts for me.Then the sudden urge to hit metal to metal, sending the car skidding endlessly towards an end. Handling stick is like handling a woman so why couldn’t he be good to my mother.
By: Anisa of the sunflowers
By: Awuor Onguru
To be born means to take responsibility for whomever birthed you. This is what I am learning today. So I say, grandma, look at that dog rolling in the sand. So that we can laugh. And then laugh harder.
By: Nikita Michelle
By: Marco Tiyo Adriko
"So does your happiness smell like sugar and roses? Like cocoa butter? Should you go to Walmart, buy the scent and lather yourself in it in an attempt to re-experience the most joy you have ever felt in your life? Should you buy sugar cake and stuff your face with it until your body is screaming for a reprieve?"
By: Joanne Ndagire
"We must seek happiness the way we did as children; Unabashedly, selfishly and innocently."