Month: October 2015

The Smoking Private

The Smoking Private

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There is a massive red crab moving at the entrance to a seafood restaurant. Across the street, a large Scandinavian man with blond flowy hair is stripping down to his blue briefs to try on jeans from a roadside …

Nancy Goes Under the Knife

Nancy Goes Under the Knife

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We plan, God laughs; this saying has never felt as true as it did this week. My intention was to thoroughly enjoy my birthday week complete with what we, the young ones in the society, call turning up. But …

Everybody’s Furry!

Everybody’s Furry!

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There is something about a woman in a short dress. The way the dress stops and her legs just start. And when the wind blows against her, stretching the fabric across her body, the world collectively holds its breath. …

Let Them Have Birthday Cake

Let Them Have Birthday Cake

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I have never had a birthday cake baked or bought in my honor. Never seen my name on a cake. I don’t know how it feels to blow a birthday candle. See, we didn’t grow up celebrating birthdays as …

Nancy at week 13

Nancy at week 13

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by Nancy Cherotich

I do not know why but the pressure to lose weight has been too high. It felt like everyone but me was exercising or on a particular diet. The number of people jogging around the estate …