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Victor Forna
@vf12.bsky.social
writing daydreams

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V. The Heart’s Persistent Song

“Leak” by @mariahossain.bsky.social

“A Tapestry of Dreams” by @vf12.bsky.social

“The Eleventh Three-Quarters Hour” by @lesliewhat.bsky.social

“What It Means to Drift” by Rajeev Prasad
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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In order to grant his dying son's wish, a father illegally smuggles them out of the dome they live in at the end of the world.

Heartwrenching flash fic sci-fi by @vf12.bsky.social #africanlit

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Dream, Wish, Kaleidoscope — Orion's Belt
The obsessions of the father seep into the son.
www.orions-belt.net
April 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Our protagonist, a child, has noticed 3 small raffia creatures following his mother around and delighting in her slow decline, eating away at her.

Raw encounter with death and dying by @vf12.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com #africanlit 🪐📚💙

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like blood on the mouths of death - Nightmare Magazine
I first saw them one evening in May. I couldn’t tell what they were: small, like kids, like me, but they rustled, raffia fronds for skin. My eyes fizzing with dreams, I found Mama cradled on the sofa,...
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April 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Our narrator is gravely ill with an unknown disease. She contemplates her life. Is the pain of living worth it? Or should she join her ancestors in Roratha the Spirit World?

Heartbreaking story by @vf12.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social #africansff 🪐📚💙

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April 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"like blood on the mouths of death" — Victor Forna

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•dread — horror — bleak
•accept — desperate — despair
•loss — loss — loss
•nibble — bite — swallow

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like blood on the mouths of death - Nightmare Magazine
I first saw them one evening in May. I couldn’t tell what they were: small, like kids, like me, but they rustled, raffia fronds for skin. My eyes fizzing with dreams, I found Mama cradled on the sofa,...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Even gods can't control a human heart's desire.

Imarimuthɔŋ was promised to a Kərfi by her desperate mother when she was an ailing baby. But she reneges.

Soooo I'm sobbing in the middle of the night. The yearning is superb 🤌🏾 Kudos @vf12.bsky.social #africansff 💙📚🪐

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In This Garden of Our Memories - Victor Forna | Lolwe
A short story by Victor Forna
lolwe.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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February 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM