Feb 13, 2024 | 2023 Competition, Short Story Competition, University Prize
Ndaicha sat in her bedroom, her eyes fixed on the rain drops sliding down the windowpane. She was lost in thought, her mind replaying the events of the day. It had been a day like any other until a moment of carelessness had turned everything upside down in her mind....
Feb 13, 2024 | 2023 Competition, Main Prize, Short Story Competition
When I heard my grandmother call me from the front of the church door, I knew New Year’s Eve was destined to be a nightmare. To say I was embarrassed is an understatement – I was holding on to my dear life. My brief two minutes of romantic conversation were...
Feb 13, 2024 | 2023 Competition, Main Prize, Short Story Competition
They have chosen a husband for me but he is already dead. His body is a pile of bones buried many a dark moon ago. Only his head remains in a dark room, preserved by ancient ways. So strange was the day when they came to tell me about it. Before the rooster crowed, a...
Feb 13, 2024 | 2023 Competition, Main Prize, Short Story Competition
He came like a thief. He left like a thief. No one of us knew where he went to just like no one of us knew where he came from. He spoke with no one, he smiled with no one, he laughed with no one, he walked with no one. He was not tall, and we could not call him a...
Feb 13, 2024 | 2023 Competition, Main Prize, Short Story Competition
Of all the craziest things I would have ever expected to hear, telling me I would be suing my sister does not even make it to the top three. My eyes flew across the courtroom and came to an abrupt stop as they spotted their target. Even with clear lines of exhaustion...
Feb 13, 2024 | 2023 Competition, Main Prize, Short Story Competition
Like rain drops, salty liquid trickled from his eyes down his cheeks in a steady stream. It was hotter than he had imagined. And sour. It rained heavily. It was a heavy rain. One that hadn’t been witnessed before. The wind blew like one that would take the house...
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