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ilozumba.bsky.social
Amanda Ilozumba
@ilozumba.bsky.social
Messenger for fictional characters| Three owls disguised as a human| Solarpunk girlie| Relunctant accountant


Read my work here : https://linktr.ee/Messenger.for.fic.characters
Grateful to be part of Reckoning
Seriously: thank your submission readers. You hear it all the time: writing is confessional, writing is therapy. That puts editors and readers squarely in the role of counselor, therapist, even priest. Specifically, cause I don't say it enough, thank you @ilozumba.bsky.social, Ivy Raff, ... [cont]
November 6, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Amanda Ilozumba
“It’s okay, Aunty. I brought you to Obatete. I’ll protect you.” With that, the girl’s features stretched out, becoming distorted – bonier and rotten –"

a terrifyingly smart horror story by @ilozumba.bsky.social, in Lolwe.

lolwe.org/the-haunting...
The Haunting of Kambili - Amanda Ilozumba | Lolwe
A short story by Amanda Ilozumba
lolwe.org
September 28, 2023 at 4:27 PM
While you’re at it, check out my other works here: linktr.ee/Messenger.fo...
September 27, 2023 at 1:41 PM
My debut horror short story, ‘The Haunting of Kambili,’ is out on Lolwe. It explores the horrors of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I really loved writing this one because I had to write it carefully to not distract from the message I want to pass.

Read it here:

lolwe.org/the-haunting...
September 27, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

Zarah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor

Dreams and assorted nightmares by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

African literature >>>>>
Introduce yourself with 3 books you love:

In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Oreo by Fran Ross
Introduce yourself with 3 books you love:

Molly Gloss’s Hearts of Horses
Megan Giddings’s The Women Could Fly
Diana Wynne Jones’s Archer’s Goon
September 25, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Submit!😤
Hooray, and thank you very much to everyone who submitted something for Reckoning 8.

In case you missed out: Reckoning 9 is open starting today. Guidelines:

reckoning.press/submit/
September 25, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Amanda Ilozumba
New from Reckoning 7 (getting down to the end now!): "Yellow River Burial" by Floris Kleijne, a gentle, queer near-future SF story about lifelong love and grief and going back to the earth: https://reckoning.press/yellow-river-burial/
August 21, 2023 at 1:53 PM