HeyJaredThe Mundane, and the Magic
Here, we find magic in the mundane. And make wonder our forever song.
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Unavoidably Yours. (opens the original)
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ENITANEnitan stares at the strategy deck on her laptop screen, the glowing bullet points blurring together into a meaningless wall of text.She checks the digital clock in the corner of her monitor: 11:42 AM.By now, he is probably on his way to the airport. Or maybe Kachi’s car is already pulling up to the international departures curb.She pushes her glasses up her nose, leaning back against her executive chair with a long exhale. She had deliberately scheduled two client alig
KILL YOUR DARLINGS. (opens the original)
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The phrase “kill your darlings” is most often attributed to William Faulkner, though Stephen King made it a cornerstone of modern writing advice, and Arthur Quiller-Couch famously urged writers to “murder your darlings” long before either of them. In its original context, the advice is simply this: no matter how brilliant a sentence feels, no matter how clever the metaphor or how exquisitely turned the phrase, if it does not serve the heart of the story, it must go.Subscribe n
Unavoidably Yours. (opens the original)
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KITANKitan sits on the long leather sofa in Kachi’s apartment, a cold bottle of malt resting against his knee, staring blankly at the Premier League match playing on the wide-screen TV. He hasn’t registered a single pass in twenty minutes.Kachi walks out of the kitchen holding a bowl of freshly made Gizdodo, dropping it onto the coffee table before sinking into the armchair opposite him. He doesn’t say anything at first. He just takes a sip of his drink, leaning back, watching Kitan with a knowi
THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS. (opens the original)
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I remember the first time I had Pure Bliss wafers.It was sometime in 2016, I think. I had just left Balogun Market at quarter to evening after a long, gruelling day of waka waka with my mother. If you have ever accompanied an African mother to a bustling market, you understand that shopping is an endurance sport. There is the walking and the bargaining and the stopping at one shop because somebody knows somebody who sells the same thing cheaper. There is doubling back because she has remembered
Unavoidably Yours. (opens the original)
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ENITANThe dress hangs exactly the way she remembers, fitting like a second skin.She smooths an imaginary crease over her waist anyway. Old habit.The full-length mirror throws her reflection back at her, and for a brief second, she simply stops and looks. It has been a long time since she dressed for anything that wasn’t a client pitch, church, or somebody’s wedding.The red gown sits elegantly against her skin, exposing one shoulder before sweeping cleanly across the other. The go
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