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“I was a reader before I was a writer, and when I started putting together my first collection of short stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, I drew on my rich history as a reader to try and create my voice. I wanted this voice to reflect my Somali background, my Kenyan upbringing and my London home. This voice would be a mashup of all the elements that formed my youth; the sticky-sweet Jamaican patois, the Kenyan street slang, my Somali and Italian linguistic tics, my love of jazz poetics and nineties hip-hop slanguistics. This language would form the bed on which my narratives of love, loss, identity and hope would rest.”
Diriye Osman
“You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.”
Teresa Lo, Realities: a Collection of Short Stories“Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.”
Teresa Lo, Realities: a Collection of Short Stories“The other houses in the neighborhood had Christmas lights up and trees visible in their windows, but not Shae's. She and I were the only ones who didn't care anymore, and I liked that about her.”
Teresa Lo, The Other Side: a Collection of Short Stories“This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.”
Will Bly, Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories“My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people's minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs? Should we really ingest food made from chemicals not of this earth? Should we really give our money to people who don't need it but want it to fill the evil greed inside of their body? No, we don't, but people need me to show them how to be free." Jimmy, "The One”
Teresa Lo, The Other Side: a Collection of Short Stories“I love the sound of people thinking.”
Will Bly, Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories“You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' coincidence that they was in the sky before Koos an" Piet was drowned.""Yes," said Kielbiet, "it's nonsense. Have a drink. You'll go fish all right.”
Theo Engela, African Assignment: A Collection of Short StoriesAll in One Creative & Marketing Platform to tell stories at scale
