The Wasteland

Prosper C. Ìféányí

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And then Astrid, after being asked by his children for the umpteenth time what fate was, sculpted an imaginary face from the innermost thickness of a smoke rising skywards from the great wasteland, and said: there is life, and then there is death, what happens in-between is left to us.

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Prosper C. Ìféányí writes from Lagos, Nigeria. His works are featured or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, New Delta Review, The Offing, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere.

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