Munyori 2017 Update 1
This is the 10th Anniversary year for Munyori Literary Journal, and we plan to make it a great year of serious publications. Submit your best. We start the year with a captivating short story by Zimbabwean writer Rumbi Munochiveyi's "A Certain Time Ago", which has gotten a huge following on the site, so many captivated and inspired readers, as our page stats have shown.
Rumbi Munochiveyi is a Zimbabwean writer who is currently completing her B.S. in Mathematics at the Worcester State University, Massachusetts. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and four children. This is her second story to appear in Munyori Literary Journal.
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Ambuya died on a breezy, early August afternoon, twenty-five minutes after six o’clock, with my mother sitting next to her bed, calmly watching life slip out of her. Mamma folded her mother’s arms over a bosom barely covered by a thin-threaded muslin nightdress my grandmother had worn each night for seven years, and covered the eyes’ whites before calling anyone, before shedding a single tear, like it was the most normal thing to do on a Thursday afternoon.
August 5th 2004, it says on Ambuya’s grave.
Her death shattered so many things, many parts of me, it has taken a while to make it all out into something coherent, an explanation of sorts for those who say, hurry, hurry now, wipe those tears, close those holes, and walk on.
I can’t.
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