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The angel tongue of a man who does not love me anymore
Poetry Abigail George 12/3/22 Poetry Abigail George 12/3/22

The angel tongue of a man who does not love me anymore

No more love / Only the harvest of /golden-yellow sunflowers/ Another summer on hold

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The Girl That Taught Me Love
Poetry Fadairo Tesleem 4/16/22 Poetry Fadairo Tesleem 4/16/22

The Girl That Taught Me Love

kneel before her feet, behold her face/ and confess that it glitters/ tell her the moon steals from her brightness.

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Audio: Open letter to the people suffocating in blues
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Audio: Open letter to the people suffocating in blues

Poetry | Podcast | Praise Osawaru | Nigeria

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My pleasure
Fiction Sugar Pendragon 6/20/20 Fiction Sugar Pendragon 6/20/20

My pleasure

There was no guilt, no remorse, even more curiously, no sense of loss.

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The unforgivable sin
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The unforgivable sin

Short story on love, freedom, family, and marriage.

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Double-faced
Poetry Gloria Ikekhide 5/1/19 Poetry Gloria Ikekhide 5/1/19

Double-faced

You bring me flowersWild with thorns like your love

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View fullsize Congratulations to Gift Nyoni, the winner of the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 🎊 👏 

A big thank you to everyone who played a part in the success of this year's edition of the prize.

An anthology of the longlisted stories will be published in t
View fullsize The winner of the 2025 Afritondo Short Story Prize is the Zimbabwean writer, Gift Nyoni, for his short story, Heat.

On "Heat", the judges said: Propulsive and compulsively readable, "Heat" is a story about movement and its attend
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View fullsize 📢 The shortlist for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 will be announced on Friday, April 18, 2025. Watch this space.

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