Maroula Blades is a writer living in Berlin. She received an Honourable Mention in the 2019 Stephen A. Dibase Poetry Contest Awards and was the first runner up in the 2018 Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award. She won the Caribbean Writer 2014 Flash Fiction Competition and Erbacce Poetry Prize 2012.
Adesanya’s sunken eyes show shadows and fire. The wet earth opens and moves under foot. Behind the log cabin, beyond the stone ridge, stands a grey wind-whipped landscape; it tumbles like a deck of cards. A free-falling disaster charges in gravity’s call,
