Richard brought a painting home. It was a painting of a man holding an umbrella. Or, he wasn’t holding an umbrella. It was a painting of several men falling from the sky like drops of rain. None of those men...
"You are foolish, but you want to be seen, and touched, and to remember that you are alive, now, in this body of yours—before they come for you, because isn't it inevitable?" Ife's journey continues in the second instalment of...
Marlowe is searching for her twin brother, Hugo. Ten years ago, they were kidnapped from their home planet, an all-black commune in space, and separated. Marlowe was left in an all-white suburb on Earth, but she's not alone. Together with...
“Ọrun is heaven, the water is sweet, the work is plenty, and they pay well. And nobody can vanish there.” The first instalment of Francesca Ekwuyasi’s two-part story chronicles the exploitation of a young migrant trapped in a dazzling but...
New fiction from Francesca Ekwuyasi traces the ups and down of long distance friendship, from Lagos to Halifax and back.
In Sarah Rupp's new story, doppelgänger lovers Simone and Second Simone meet at a dive to plan a day of getting high to the soundtrack of extinct bird calls. The night takes a dangerous and bloody turn (but for who?)...
by Kyla Jamieson After Joni Murphy and Morgan Parker Pressure to produce writing that will be appropriated as cultural capital by the institution (“MFA alumna _________”) will push you into yourself, press your tongue to the roof of your...
