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A Friability Test

By | 2020-11-14T08:05:10-08:00 November 12th, 2020|Categories: Issue 122: 12 November 2020|Tags: , , |

By Kimutai Allan You can try muzzling the press and stifling healthy discourse. They are actions, easy. It’s a different tale down in our hearts. You can’t break us. We aren’t as friable as your petty thoughts deem.   Kimutai Allan is an emerging Kenyan writer. His works have been published previously by The Active Muse, [...]

Elegy

By | 2018-11-03T04:13:07-07:00 November 2nd, 2018|Categories: Issue 74: 01 November 2018|Tags: , , , , |

By Bänoo Zan For Jamal Khashoggi I am Allah— Al-Rahman[1]— Al-Rahim[2]— banished from faith and love mourning— beauty— my Word— censored— I am mourning my death— The robe of my Kaaba stained with blood of free speech I have witnessed Terror— my sons beheaded my daughters deprived of light I am Allah— Beloved of bards and [...]