“Dad, you’re being horrible...And what were you doing in my room, anyway?”

“I was cleaning it… which, again, is something you should be doing yourself...”

“I hate you. You should get a job and stop spying on us”

Dearest Sender of the Bulldozers

Christopher Mlalazi

Apart from the bills for my daughters' school fees at Loyola Jesuit College, nothing brings tears to my eyes like a fresh fillet of catfish steaming and trembling in a hot plate of egusi soup.

Nile Baby

Elleke Boehmer

A Way You Will Never Be

Ike Okonta

But I knew I couldn’t turn her away. No matter how long I lived in Abrokye... Abena would have to come and see that I shared a tight one bedroom with a weird white girl; that I had no money even though my closet was full of $600 and $800 Alain et Riette shoes.

Glory

Sefi Attah

Be patient,” she said, wriggling her fingers.

I almost vomited. Her hands looked like crabs. He hugged her and the top of his head barely reached her neck.

“Come,” he said, turning towards me. “Are you trying to chase my girlfriend or what?”

This is when, coming from the other side of the mountains, the BlindPeople arrived.

The survivors saw them approaching in a solid mass. Their army was sparkling. Dazzling rays of light streamed from their missiles and firearms. Their power was unmatched; their superiority invincible.

Blind Kingdom

Veronique Tadjo

Before the Birthday Party

Adelaida Fernández de Juan

Calm down, calm down, I’ll get four matches and that way Sonny can blow them all out. If you stick that big fat candle in, it’ll look like a funeral, and it’ll make a huge hole in the cake.