“Inappetence” is a term used to denote a lack of hunger. As the story puts it: “They slipped from the shadows to monitor his decline. Impatient, they moved forward to taste the light.All the world was hungry it seemed, except for him. Even the thought of food repelled him.” “...
For the past four years, the city of Agadez has been what could barely pass as home for a woman without a name. Nigerian, she fends for herself as a sex-worker, but that was not how she arrived in this place. Her story is that of a migrant, initially trying to make her way north...
Clearly, there has been some demand destruction, and perhaps this was enough to cause the price of gasoline to come back down a little. But maybe it wasn’t. Maybe this demand destruction wasn’t the cause of the decline in gasoline prices. Maybe they fell f...
Fine, I wasn’t close to any of them, didn’t have an impressive intimacy with any. The gap between me and all my siblings is too stretched: my immediate elder sister is seven years older. I’m a kind of an Isaac to my mother (she gave birth to me at 45), though not so to ...