I waited for a minute. The laughter from inside went quiet I could hear murmurs then someone getting up. As ...
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I can't even remember how many times she had come home, late at night, crying and bloodied. And every time, ...
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The phone call was brief.  "Mama Shirleen, kimbia nyumbani..!" A mother knows when an emergency is an emergency.  I stopped ...
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I can't believe am doing this. I had promised myself I would bury this deep inside myself. Yet am furiously ...
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Being hit by a woman makes me sound less of a man But Carol hit me, not once, or twice ...
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Njambi* looks out the window. She has been silent for a few minutes now. The light afternoon drizzle is hitting ...
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My mama told me everything would be ok. She was wrong I sensed the danger as soon as the rusty ...
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They came for me in the wee hours, in the small of the night I knew what they were planning ...
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