The boy had done what anyone would have done. A child of the raped, living alongside rapists. The matatu’s roof groans with the crates of hens and goats, on top of which sit children, eyes slitted against the dust. The man is going to Nairobi. He has been told that…

She sat down in the centre, where a raised platform of stones made a low seat, and pulled a long thorn from the sole of her foot. She had entered the labyrinth in the usual way: hands in prayer position, with a question in mind (what will happen if I…

“Don’t stop. We’ll tell them when we get to Loki.” A swarm of locusts hit the windscreen in a blizzard of wings. She sprayed and sprayed and the smeared glass gradually cleared enough to make out the long straight road but in the rear view mirror, nothing but dust rose…

She was standing by the side of the loch, at dawn, on a summer’s morning. The cool air warming caused a mist to rise like smoke. She had walked the three miles from the village towards her mother’s house, along the main road, and then over a fence and onto…

“Wake up.” The words were almost whispered but in her mind, they came like a scream, merging into the dream. “I am the light!” “What do you mean I’m the light? That doesn’t even make sense!” “It’s something they say in the church, though, isn’t it? And everyone understands it…

Yesterday, I said I was going to put up an episode of my story each day. I will. But I will also put up additional pieces, as I continue to work on becoming more organised, a life long project! Our responsibilities do not end at the boundary of our species…

A man, small, deformed, with a bone-smooth stick tucked under one arm, military-fashion, ducks into the hut outside which hangs the sign House of Tea and stands for a moment, sun-blind. He takes his bearings and makes for a stool fashioned from a stolen hubcap and covered with grass-stuffed cloth…

I’m going to write a novel. Here. On Medium. Day by day. I’m going to write a few lines. Sometimes I’ll write a whole chapter. Who knows. But I’ll write something every day. Are you with me? I’m not original in this. I need an income, badly, now that I’m…

What comes to mind when you consider the question, what is yoga for? Before you answer, take a few moments to consider the alignment of your spine and the base of your body. A broad base, a good foundation, and an aligned and even spine and balanced skull, and a…