"Short Story Day Africa 2019"-- title page. First published in South Africa by Short Story Day Africa in 2019"-- title page verso.
Contents:
Shithole / Michael Yee. Door of no return / Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda -- Why don't you live in the North? / Wamuwi Mbao -- Outside Riad Dahab / Chourouq Nasri -- The snore monitor / Chido Muchemwa -- The Fountain of Lethe / Bryony Rheam -- The match / Troy Onyango -- Mr. Thompson / Noel Cheruto -- A miracle in Valhalla / Fred Nnamdi -- The demons inside my Jimmy / Harriet Anena -- An abundance of lies / Faith Oneya -- The layover / Anna Degenaar -- The space(s) between us / Lester Walbrugh -- Broken English / Adorah Nworah -- Of birds and bees / Davina Philomena Kawuma -- Slow road to the Winburg Hotel / Paul Morris -- Maintenance check / Alinafe Malonje -- The Jollof of cook-off / Nkiacha Atemnkeng -- The tale of two sisters / Tariro Ndoro -- The last resident / Jayne Bauling -- Shithole / Michael Yee.
Summary:
"Check-in... To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels with the option to pay by the hour. To intimate anonymous rooms wiped clean every twenty-four hours or clammy beds where remnants of yesterday's guests still lurk.Check-in... Lovers, aid workers, businessmen local and foreign, wedding guests, gap-year travellers, volunteer tourists, honeymooners, UN soldiers, politicians, adventure seekers, evangelists, holidaymakers, warmongers, peacekeepers.Check-in... To hotels made of brick and cement and blood and sweat. Hotels made of corrugated iron and clay and hope and faith. Hotels celebrated, hotels forgotten. Hotels that have served as shelter for the night or refuge when the shots rang out.Check-in to Hotel Africa.The latest Short Story Day Africa prize and anthology theme is Hotel Africa. Innovative short fiction set in the rooms, the passages, the bars and the lobbies of hotels across the continent, as well as metafiction exploring Africa as a hotel herself. If these walls could talk, what story would they tell?"-- provided by publisher.
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