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The Last Time I Called You Home
We kept the lease six weeks longer than the marriage. I learned the flat by the sound of you not being in it.
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❍Coffee Break
Directions to a Person
A two-minute story about the year I gave everyone the same set of directions to her door.
✶Poems
Softly, Then All at Once
A short poem about the slow arithmetic of missing someone.
◍Confessions
I Kept Her Playlist
We broke up two years ago. I still have not skipped a single one of her songs.
▚Corporate Tales
The Reply-All That Ended Him
He meant to forward it to one person. He sent it to the floor. By lunch it had reached the people it was about.
◆Nigerian Stories
Light Don Come
In my mother's house, the return of electricity is an event with its own liturgy. I did not know I missed it until I lived somewhere it never leaves.
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❤Love StoriesFirst love, breakups, marriage, situationships — the whole reckless map of it.✶PoemsOne poem per page. Big type, low light, nothing in the way.▚Corporate TalesOffice confessions, told anonymously. The reply-all, the promotion that cost you, the meeting that should've been an email.◍ConfessionsAnonymous. The things you've never said out loud.◆Nigerian StoriesCorpers, parents, the village, japa. Home, in all its noise.❍Coffee BreakStories you can finish before the kettle boils.