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Article: In the graveyard of afterbirth. (short story)
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- TriQuarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1994
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It is not yet dawn in the highlands of Kenya, but already the woman, Ukali, is walking the road that winds up Ol Doinyo Sabuk. She is wearing her heavy coat with the Lamu, brass buttons, turning her fingers around them like they are tiny knobs on a secret door, like she is trying to find a way back inside her own heart.
Ukali is thinking about her son, Mathu, nineteen. Two weeks ago he had his way with a girl he hardly knew, and perhaps no one would have ever known, except this girl, only fourteen and fresh from giving birth, began to bleed. They were in the grasses not far from St. Kizito School and her blood ran out in thin, twisting rivers, so many rivers Mathu ran ...
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