Ash Flake in a Blizzard — Vol. One

The Hardest Thing Oh, calm down; it's not the end of the world. Or so the saying goes. But what if it were? Can you identify that one thing that, if you had to live through it more than once, would be the end of the world? Well, that sounds either super vague or like one of those futile thought e

Chapter 1 Love at First Tale Ore, December 1991, Mushubati The afternoon sun beat down on the courtyard, a heat common to the African dry season, though a gentle breeze which, just after noon, offered a welcome respite, rustling the leaves and carrying the faint, distant murmur of voices

2 — Le Blanc Shards, September 2020, Brussels to Bujumbura Gabriel metiJe onoson his way back to Africa. This was Gabriel's first time setting foot on his birth continent after twentyfive years in exjle. Against a backdrop of COVID19 restrictions, her offhand bestowal of the name "Le Blanc" w