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He Makes Verse
This originally appeared on misteragyeman.blogspot.com on July 14, 2015. My mail inbox just tried to kill me. I opened Gmail this morning after a heavy 12-hour marathon of work, rushing to redeem a long-deferred promise of mine.…
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Story: Jasper
This originally appeared on misteragyeman.blogspot.com on June 15, 2015. Hello. It’s been a while. I haven’t felt like writing much. But I decided to do so this week, to fix a brooding phase which wasn’t helped much by…
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Story: Bobo
A coming-of-age tale. Around the third term of Class Five, thoughts of love begin to circulate. Everything conspires to make things this way. Torsos begin to advertise gender. The weather grows moist and…
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Story: The Education of Sir Q
I got this title in my head, and decided to try and write a children’s book to fit it. It was a fun project, and I enjoyed the nostalgia it brought. But then my brave veteran…
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Story: Rest (A Fragment)
A regular person would say it was a nice town. The capital city was arranged to make regular people think this. Everything was arranged along the main street from the airport to the economic…
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Fragments from ‘Sand’
The contagion of insanity did not shy away from the corridors of power. In a briefing room on the top floor of the Pentagon, the Director of Intelligence paused on his way back to…
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Share a Coke with Aishatu
The Story Welcome, brothers and sisters. I suppose you are all wondering why I have gathered you here. The matter at hand is the story of Aishatu; otherwise titled, Make Me A Woman Today. It was…
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Writing: another ‘Sand’ story
(Originally shared as an FB Post on 7th February, 2013.) So I found a couple more stories from the ‘Sand’ comic sci-fi novel I never did write… Fragments from ‘Sand’ A bunch of short passages from this aborted epic.…