Fiction

FICTION

- Hadiza, Pawners Paper, 2021. 

- Potatoes for Dinner, in the Reverie Issue, Loana Magazine, 2022. 

- No Clear Skies Here, in the Restoration Issue, FU Rreview, Berlin, 2022.

- Every man, their way, in the Schadenfreude Issue, The FEEEL Magazine, 2023. 

- God wants me to be a writer; so Does Ainah!, in the SUNKISSED Issue, Red Polka Books, 2023. 

- It Was Not Rain - It Was Blood, The Kalahari Review, 2024. 


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