It was a flat backhanded slap. I had to move a short distance behind even as my eyes adjusted to the normal vision. It is one thing for a man to be slapped by another man, but...
For some strange reason, her watery bloodshot eyes remained unblinkingly interlocked on me. She totally refused to look away. It is as if she wanted to penetrate in and discover why I had old gastric ulcers. As...
She flung the door open and immediately shouted... kwani unakaa kwangu bila kulipa rent?!" Loosely translated would be, "idiota! What kind of man are you! Pay up fool! She oozed explosive anger.
I almost...
I was absentmindedly passing through Kenya National Archives or, just Archives as it is famously known in Nairobi when a heavy hoarse voice startled me back to reality, "Praaaaaaaaaise the rord"! I'm sure that the speaker had intended to say, "lord"...but,...
When I raised up my eyes from the pile of clothes I was selling, I met with Rehema's steady gaze. She had obviously taken her sweet time to study the creature she once knew as a class...
I was arranging clothes in our bedroom when a long receipt fell from the pockets of my husband's pair of jeans. I immediately noticed "gold earrings". Now folks, my husband knew well that...
My voice thinned out as I spoke. It was high-pitched and tender. It was a lady’s voice, yet I was everything a man would be; physically. My shoulders had remained strong and broad. I had a few...
"James, I am HIV positive". That's how I received the WhatsApp text message. For those who don't know, it was around 4:00pm, on Sunday, 5th July 2020.
I still think that it is on...
Had he known that I was 2 months pregnant by another man, he could have either committed suicide or killed me; both on the spot (and so I thought). He shot up from under the flower...
The poster was strategically glued high on an electricity pole with huge fonts that read “Mganga kutoka Tanzania”. On the list, the advert owner claimed to be a specialist in “CASINO REVENGE, NGUVU ZA KIUME, ; there...
