Selasie didn’t have many moves left. George must have known it too. The way he cracked his knuckles with his thumb, then rolled from one buttock to the other. Selasie was beginning to accept that he would lose again. The third time that afternoon. He never lost to George so…

He had every reason to be apprehensive. She sighed, then tried to pull him closer to herself. His arms were taut, his body rigid. Now that she was looking, his stomach was tubbier. Shoulders, rounder. She persisted in her tugging, caressing underneath his armpit, then rubbing his back. He gave…

Germaine had been a bank teller since her dreams to be anything but had come to a grinding halt. It wasn’t that she hated the idea of being a bank teller. But she only saw it as a ‘last resort’ first step in her career. A career going somewhere beyond…

Pearl was anxious about us not having Merged yet. We had been together for almost a year, but our bodies hadn’t Merged like the other lovers’ had. It was a process that came naturally. At night when you were sleeping with your partner, molecules, and atoms would break down and…

Let them come eat me. I will expose my body. My hands stretched to the very tips. My legs spread wide. I can sense them planning their move. Stalking from their corners. Hiding behind veiled masks. Contemplating. They see my body splayed and vulnerable. They will come. They can not…

I could never sleep in. Even after the kind of shit I got up to last night. I just can’t. My inner self doesn’t accept the idea of wasting away the day time. The sun. Its glorious rays. Try as I might this early morning to close my eyes and…

The fear of never loving again is what trickled down Gilbert’s eyes. People would say she had stabbed him in the heart. But Gilbert knew it wasn’t exactly like that. That tear, crystallising as it formed on the tip of his eyelashes, took more than its molecular form. Wet and…

An island of light in a sea of black. Little Khadija steps under the amber glow of the street lamp and settles on the curb of the street. Her knees tucked close to her chest. Her chin resting in between her kneecaps. Her fingers wrapped around her shins. Her heart…

A light flashed past her eyes. Bright. Sudden. In the moment her world split. Time broke down into the spaces between seconds. Infinite. She felt the life of a million lives lived. Fractions of a fraction of a fraction. That there could be so much to it. Sprawled out across…