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Victor Forna
@vf12.bsky.social
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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.
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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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Apex Magazine Issue 146 A Tapestry of Dreams by Victor Forna The healers in the city told me they've looked through my body with the cyes of their electronic gods, they've searched for the name of my pain under skin and muscle blood and bone, yet they've found nothing.
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,...
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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
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March 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Notes on 33 short stories tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/f...
by:

FE Choe @gabbyharry.bsky.social @kaychronister.bsky.social Wells Tower @delilahsdawson.bsky.social Etgar Keret, @domsdickey.bsky.social John Morrissey @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @vf12.bsky.social @ecatherine.com LM Guay

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“Good Boy” — Alison Littlewood “The Finest Creation of an Artful God” — B Zelkovich “The Third Curse” — Helen Grant “The Lights Under Rachel” — Kathryn Healy “Pilgrimage of the Hummingbird” — V Castro “The Grim” — Cavan Scott “Pontianak: An Origin Story” — Christina Sng “In Thin Air” — Phoenix Alexander “After the Animal Flesh Beings” — Brian Evenson “Brincando Charcos (Jumping Puddles)” — Ben Francisco “Rachel is at a Protest” — Esther Alter “Waystation City” — AT Greenblatt “Happily Ever After Comes Round” — Sarah Rees Brennan “For However Long” — Thomas Ha “Just You and Me, Now” — KT Bryski “Window Boy” — Thomas Ha “Three Things That Happen the Night my Dad Dies” — Isabel Cañas “How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga” — SM Hallow “The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier” — Anna Vangala Jones “Swarm X1048 – Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, “6”” — FE Choe “A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy” — Gabrielle Emem Harry “Ruminants” — Kay Chronister “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” — Wells Tower “Spread the Word” — Delilah Dawson “Fatso” — Etgar Keret “The Last Lucid Day” — Dominique Dickey “Five Minutes” — John Morrissey “doorbell dot mov” — Jennifer R Donahue “Heathman Ldg” — Brian Evenson “like blood on the mouths of death” — Victor Forna “First, Last, Oldest, True” — E Catherine Tobler “The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle” — L. M. Guay “The Sort” — Thomas Ha
February 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM