literary

  • A List of Things I Never Said Thank You For

    1. Sunlight. There is no feeling like it and there is no replicating it.2. Silence. The kind free from mechanical whirring and metallic crunching, lacking the hum of electrical undercurrents or pumping machinery. True silence. 3. Space. The ability to evade watchful eyes, to be alone and contemplate. To gain perspective due to physical distance.…

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  • Intimacy in Doses

    This is dedicated to every woman who has ever wanted to kill her lover; and my lover. It’s been a week since we last spoke. Seven days since I’ve heard your vocal chords whine, those thin and tender little pieces of muscle straining to make out my name. I wish you could know how unremorseful…

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Yeama H. Bangura is a writer and cultural essayist interested in the strange relationship between the self and the world around it. Her work draws from philosophy and personal experience to question the ways language, relationships, technology, and social structures shape the realities we inhabit. Her writing has been published in perediza.