Annastellah takes the back seat in church, excusing anyone who comes after her to occupy the empty seats on that row, in case she decides to leave after the offering session. She cannot explain how she ended up here. The only thing she knows is, she was strongly convinced, this was the only place the…

The only thing better than a hot shower after a break-up is this. Sitting on my toilet after a long day of holding back my bladder because my mother taught me not to trust two things; strangers and toilets outside my house. Emptying a full bladder has to be the true definition of bliss. I…

There is a certain shift of energy in a new year that makes you feel like a new creature. Like the old is gone, and your M-shwari debt has been forgotten. I hate to be the bearer of dark news, but Zuri from Safaricom still has your days numbered. Dear reader, my sincere apologies for…

WordPress keeps telling me that I need to introduce myself. It’s been a while since I walked into this space and sunk into one of the back seats hoping I would be as invisible as air. Well guess who got bursted. Not to say that I can’t keep ignoring this notification (I honestly don’t think…

When Angelica Hale sings Alicia Keys’ ‘Girl on fire,’ you almost feel your body burning on that fire. Like her mouth is spitting flames. Your body shivers when she prolongs ‘fire.’ Let me bring this home. When you listen to Nikita Kering’s ‘Ex’ at 2:00 am on a Friday, you are convinced that sending that…

There is this inconsistency bug; I hope it doesn’t bite me again. As a child, I suffered from Dyslexia. Science describes it as a disorder that involves difficulties in learning to read or interpret words, letters and other symbols but does not affect general intelligence (thanks, Mr Google…very informative.) But… I would describe Dyslexia as…

Dear grandma, I really wanted this to be a letter but then look at how that title rhymes, I haven’t achieved that in any piece before. So thanks to you, now I have an article with a title that rhymes. I would tell you so much about rhyme scheme but you wouldn’t get it now,…

https://atnkiromuriuki.wordpress.com “But we just talked yesterday!” That was the exclamation in Lawrence’s mouth when I called to inform him that we had lost Mike, His best friend. It was pretty much the response I got from everyone else except from his girlfriend Eva, who still believed Mike was somewhere running errands and he would be…

https://atnkiromuriuki.wordpress.com We had been running up and down the hospital the whole day. It was one of the coldest days in June. We walked from the doctor’s office to the lab, taking a million tests. I was so eager for the moment all this would end. She had had enough, enough of injections, pills and…