The Nine Lives of Lisa-Part 2

It was a yellow sticky note. The kind you have in a book  with shorthand notes or the one stuck on the door of your fridge with a list of the groceries you'll need to buy. Or the one you file on the frame of your computer to remind you to call IT so they …

The Nine Lives of Lisa-Part 1

By her account, it is  three in the afternoon when her friend's boyfriend call. They are organizing an engagement party at a club in town. She is handling logistics and the man is calling to check on the final details.She is seated in her corner office. Like all corner offices, figurative or real, there is …

The Three Wise Men

Two days before Valentine’s, she walked to a gift shop in a slow street in Nairobi. She walked to that shop as anyone could walk, with money and expectations. She went to buy Ken, her boyfriend, birthday presents. His birthday was coming up and so was Valentine’s. She had taken days off and made reservations …

BEFORE SHE FLIES

Her tears,burnt my fingers.But the sorrow is what set my heart ablaze.Her hair thin,her crown ripped off.Her heart shuttered.She wanted to talk,she wanted to say something,maybe,