My worst day in lifetime

Abdi Fatah Jama Afrah

One day when I went to school it was raining very heavily so students could not come, so when I reached the school I was wet I saw that there were no students in the school. It was evening, so I felt lonely and it was very cold. After some time I decided to go home and rest. On my way home the rain began again. Now it was almost dark and nobody was moving. The steps were hard so I tried to escape the rain under a big acacia tree. I never knew who was there but unfortunately there was a dead man who was being killed by thieves and was sleeping beside me. When the rain stopped two police men approached me and asked me who killed this man? I said I don’t know. Then they took me to the police station and I spent two nights there. That was my worst day in my lifetime.

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  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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