Breaking Loose
Nnamdi Nwaige
Illustration by Aishah Ahmad
The stigma will be unbearably immense, I decide, so I
summon Gina’s number on my phone. She’d said to call
when I make up my mind. I don’t want to confess to Father;
his pious heart may fail and his congregations’ faith in him
may waver. Mother will grab her breasts and fall backwards.
It will have to be backwards, the same way she fell when
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