Category: Fiction/Short stories

The Silent Turn-off

The Silent Turn-off Disillusionment doesn’t arrive with fanfare. It comes quietly, as grains of sand in the softness of what once felt smooth — irritations so small at first you almost dismiss them, until one day you can’t. Her talk of being organised, of getting things done, impressed at first. But repeated too often, it Read More …

The Lizards’ Message

Here is how, one day, I came to understand that I should never hunt again… The story takes place around Les 2 Plateaux, district of Cocody in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), sometime around 1976 or 1977. We must have been 12 or 13 years old. During the Christmas or Easter holidays, when we weren’t busy organizing Read More …