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Give This To April Mayfair
I have wondered what makes a woman beg the way she did. The truth I abandoned is this: she did not desire less from me because she was happy with little; she did so because all I was willing to afford her was little, even after she had given all of herself to me. Continue reading
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Stay With Me, A Response
“Under the canopies, everything is yellow and green. Green tablecloths, yellow satin covers with green bows for the chairs. I sit down on the first seat I can find under the canopy that has your name on it; there are over a thousand guests here. You must have spent a lot of money, but it… Continue reading
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A Lesser Happiness
He looks at your full breasts and he is pleased that you are carrying his many children. He does not care that they will eat you from the inside, that they will tear you open, that they will bite and suck you dry, until your chest collapses. Continue reading
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Extremely Harmless & Incredibly Underwhelming
Ugonna kisses me now. He tells me he loves the way I love him. I want him to tell me that he will not see the woman whose hair butter I still smell on his pillow again. That I was all he thought about when he was with her. And that he only indulged her… Continue reading
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Give This To Halimah When You See Her
You have more than enough room inside you for all the men who will break your heart, all the men who will be gentle with you, and all the men whose hearts you will break—and the ones you will show grace. Continue reading
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The Monster Under My Bed Looks Just Like You, 3
Antonia, I hope that when the day comes that you choose to tell our story to strangers that take a seat in your new life, that you will tell them how well I loved you, before you tell them how much I hated you for becoming too familiar with our neighbor while his wife mourned… Continue reading
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The Monster Under My Bed Looks Just Like You, 2
It seems nothing about the way we left things has changed. You still think you are above wrongdoings because I have sheltered your thoughts; because those who love you have kept your sins away from you. And so you walk around with your barely wounded heart, and your ignorant mind that believes you are without… Continue reading
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The Monster Under My Bed Looks Just Like You, 1
I thought I was going to die the other night. It has been three times now since you left that my lungs have forgotten to do anything with the air inside it, because my whole body was too busy trying to make sense of the reasons why you insisted everything we shared had to come… Continue reading
UCHENNA ONYISHI 