<![CDATA[Stories by Favour Chiamaka Alozie on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@favourchiamaka587?source=rss-2086e5b48666------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*SVRcqdSJu5BPE3SbvulYmg.jpeg Stories by Favour Chiamaka Alozie on Medium https://medium.com/@favourchiamaka587?source=rss-2086e5b48666------2 Medium Sun, 15 Nov 2026 09:37:35 GMT <![CDATA[The Obsidian Aperture]]>

The mercury waits in its frame, a frozen lake, indifferent to the mask we curated for the day. We arrive with the debris of our names, the…

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]]> https://medium.com/the-word-smith/the-obsidian-aperture-9922b701f7cf?source=rss-2086e5b48666------2 https://medium.com/p/9922b701f7cf Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:04:45 GMT 2026-01-12T12:04:45.316Z <![CDATA[The weight of Quiet]]>

I have spent a decade carving windows into the wind, Learning that quiet is not a vacuum, but a solid A masonry of the ribs, built brick…

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]]> https://medium.com/the-word-smith/the-weight-of-quiet-519658dbb82f?source=rss-2086e5b48666------2 https://medium.com/p/519658dbb82f Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:18:33 GMT 2026-01-07T09:19:06.866Z <![CDATA[The Architecture of Mist]]>

We build our lives in the margins of "perhaps," Staking claims on soil that breathes, Mapping out the logic of the collapse While hiding…

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Look back for a moment, See how far you’ve come. You survived nights you thought would never end, When the moon felt like a cold…

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The sky once opened for me like a book that trusted my hands_ pages warm with the breath of beginnings. I read the sun as prophecy, the…

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Dearest me, I just want to let you know that you can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to sit and let your tears out.

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]]> https://medium.com/the-word-smith/dearest-me-f2d458e48d70?source=rss-2086e5b48666------2 https://medium.com/p/f2d458e48d70 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:25:53 GMT 2025-10-31T03:25:53.261Z <![CDATA[Time was born of life and death’s love-making A scandal whispered in the dark, between a gasp and a…]]>

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For a minute, we were children, boys and girls who could barely bathe beyond our bellies, our only care in the world was food and sleep…

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]]> https://medium.com/@favourchiamaka587/somewhere-between-then-and-now-2f948311e8ea?source=rss-2086e5b48666------2 https://medium.com/p/2f948311e8ea Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:00:49 GMT 2025-10-19T11:00:49.620Z <![CDATA[What We Don’t Say]]>

I hope you heal from the things you don’t tell anyone about. The weight that lives in your throat, the ghosts that visit when the room is…

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I used to think growth meant addition— more plans, more friends, more noise, like if I kept piling things onto myself, I’d finally become…

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