Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer whose work has appeared in FIYAH magazineand Apex Magazine, among others. She is part of the Sauútiverse Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and Petlo Literary Arts, an organization that develops creative writing in Botswana.
Photo by driftwood / Stock.adobe.comThe offspring’s appetites know no end. What’s a mother, any mother—even that mother who nurtures us all—to do?
The wound is smaller than last time, tiny teeth mark…