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Stories
by Lesley Nneka Arimah
And so Ezinma fumbles the keys against the lock and doesn't see what came behind her: Godwin, who grew up under his father's corrosive indulgence. Godwin, so unused to hearing no it hits him like a wave of acid, dissolving the superficial decency of a person who always gets his way. Godwin, who broke his cello when he discovered his younger brother could play it better, which is why he came to be here, watching Ezinmawho looks so much like her sister from behindfumbling the unfamiliar keys against the lock of Bibi's apartment so she doesn't see who comes behind her: Godwin, with a gun he fires into her back.
From What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky. Published by Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group USA (LLC). Copyright © Lesley Nneka Arimah, 2017.
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