Prompt # 4 – body
May 9, 2018
so many terms of endearment in Amharic refer to parts of the body … More Prompt # 4 – body
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Prompt # 20 – history
May 3, 2018
Being born, we don’t realize we’re stepping into history. We think history begins with us. … More Prompt # 20 – history
Prompt # 28 – dance
April 29, 2018
As the dances move south, so does the body. … More Prompt # 28 – dance
Prompt # 19 – music
April 27, 2018
It’s not that she doesn’t understand love. It’s that she doesn’t love you, not even close, and probably never will. Rejection. Hard to take. For anyone. … More Prompt # 19 – music
Prompt # 11 – alphabet (of luurrvv)
April 25, 2018
So how is this a metaphor for love? How the hell should I know?! Well I guess, in the sense that there’s no ‘road map’, no reliable rhythm or pattern, you have to land on it and just take it one step at a time with no expectation, no guarantee? It’s a test? A challenge? In many ways it’s about normal human interactions, which everyone has a good idea how to go about, but ‘scrambled’ by the addition of love? … More Prompt # 11 – alphabet (of luurrvv)
Prompt # 9 – language
April 23, 2018
Amharic is never fun, or if it is, it’s fun being had at my expense. (speaking as a semi-fluent, or non-fluent first generation or young immigrant), but in the land of the blind (in this case: the deaf), the one-eyed woman (the half-tongued, quarter-tongued, no-tongued woman) is queen! … More Prompt # 9 – language
Prompt # 24 – geography
April 20, 2018
a bird and a fish may fall in love but where will they live … More Prompt # 24 – geography
Notes from the Canadian Honey Jar
April 18, 2018
I collected the ‘used’ scraps in a Canadian honey jar. Make of that what you will. … More Notes from the Canadian Honey Jar
A Creature of Speed and Air
October 25, 2017
Habesha dudes usually open with: Don’t I know you? I said, “Have you met me?”
… More A Creature of Speed and Air
Reading My Vitamins
June 2, 2017
On craving “…the same innocent enchantment I had when I was a reader of twelve or thirteen…” … More Reading My Vitamins
Rebecca Fisseha, Writer. 