* A little ways down the road, you’ll find a job. After several months of job hunting , you’ll be beat and almost giving up. The ‘come tomorrows’ and ‘we’ll call yous’ will have gotten the best of you. They’ll have beaten you down to a near win. But just as you are about to […]
Category: Profundity
Heartfelt List of Truths: 2018
This year for me has been far from good. It has been like one of those evenings where you get home after a long day and as you take a shower, a blackout occurs. There’s soap in your eyes and cold water hitting you on the back and you can’t see shit. You grope on […]
Pinky Ring
On a star-studded cold Friday night, I am seated on a friend’s couch in his apartment along Thika Road. It’s a new maroon couch but it looks like it’s already seen better days. The TV is playing something on YouTube. Cardi B, I think. One of her million collabos. Songs you hear and immediately realize […]
Party Lovers
My attraction towards her is solely caused by the imaginations I have of what I’d want to do her on a bed. She doesn’t know this. She’s in a circle of four girls. They’re all holding red cups with liquor. One of them has a dying cig hanging from her fingers. I am staring at […]
Feminist Me
Feminist Me is the answer a female friend gave as we argued about who were stronger between men and women. The answer was, and always will be, women.
A Shaggy Dog Story
My dog breaks my heart as I watch old age drain the life out of her. She’s a girl, my dog, but she’s no bitch. She goes by Tommy. And Tommy is 10 now – 66 in dog years.