Short Fiction
Traveling Light
By Maria AdjeiAbena has to decide what to do with what she's found — and what she owes the two grandmothers she never got to properly ask.
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What the Wind Carried
By Maria Adjei
The letters trace a correspondence her grandmother never mentioned — and Abena starts to understand why the family stopped speaking his name.
The Box Under the Bed
By Maria Adjei
Clearing out her grandmother's room, Abena finds a shoebox of letters tied with raffia string — and a name she has never heard before.
The Quiet Pressure Behind Being the Successful Sibling
By Maria Adjei
A work of short fiction exploring what it costs to be the sibling everyone points to as proof the family made the right sacrifices.
Five Afrobeats Records Defining 2026 — A Fiction Writer's Playlist
By Maria Adjei
A personal essay weaving five defining Afrobeats records of the year into the story of the writer's own difficult, transformative twelve months.