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There’s an aching for home. I’ve been working on a crochet wedding dress. I love weddings. My best friend just got a prostate cancer diagnosis. Another friend called, excited; his son just said [...]

I was only five years old when my grandmother died one afternoon almost three decades ago. I remember my uncles speaking with my grandfather in hushed tones. And then when my mom and aunties were [...]

There are only two times that peoples’ bodies become heavy. When they fall asleep, and when they die. But for Kevin, there was a third. Cerebral palsy had robbed him of speech and movement. Lilly [...]

According to my father, his grandfather was an elder of the clan, one of the highest ranks among the Agikuyu. He had been given birth to by a traveler thus rising through the ranks on his own. A [...]

PPBlessing: How did you get into writing? Benny: It has been a step by step growth throughout the years. I think the interest started growing when I was still in primary school writing [...]

I found a way for my fingers to navigate me through the blinds, where the dawn’s sunrise, the dusk’s sunset, and the full moon peeked through my drapes, spreading reflections and shadows at my [...]

There is a new colonization, just wait let me tell you, enthusiasts. Chills and spasms and sometimes, open curious chasms I fret at times at the looming impotence, Alas! When the inventor is held [...]

Beat! The air explodes in rhythmic spasms of melody Crafting silence into music Mould by mould awakening This tapestry of profound emotion. Beat! The cadence possesses me I douse myself in the [...]

Palms on skins, the strings rattle Palms on skins, feet hustle Eight beats each in quick succession The number of the spirit of the word Eight palms for four tightened skins The symbol of time, [...]

Wino wangu nautua, ya uhondo kutongoa, Ya moyoni kuyatua, na adili kuongoa, Ya mekoni kufutua, yalo fiche kuzongoa, Mlo wa nina sifia, metukuza ukubwani. Nina hazina sifia, vya asili hifadhia, [...]