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Murdering Romance by Kendi Karimi
A Wakini Kuria Prize & African Writers Awards shortlisted author
Murdering Romance is a story about Mukami who simply wanted to experience an actual authentic moment of genuine love and call it her own. But let the title not lull you into thinking that the book is solely about romance. It is much more. The author first portrays Mukami as this lady who seems to be on a revenge mission disguised as a pursuit of love but as the plot thickens, the storyline evolves into other deeper issues. The book delves deep into several themes including domestic violence, toxic masculinity, femininity, absentee parents and abuse, among others.
Often there is a gulf of difference between fiction and non-fiction but in Murdering Romance, the dissimilarity between the two is too blurred to discern.
Life In No Order: A compilation of sh...
A head scratching, heart stopping collection of stories
Praise for the stories in Life In No Order
GENRE: SHORT STORY
TITLE: OUR BRIEF HEAVENLY HOUR
WRITER: KENDI KARIMI, KENYA
REVIEWER: HALIEO MOTANYANE, LESOTHO
WEBSITE: WRITER'S SPACE AFRICA
Captivity is one of the biggest achievements that a writer should rejoice in whenever their story masters it. For a story to be a masterpiece, the reader should be captivated to the point of not wanting to stop reading while wishing the story should not end.
This is what Kendi Karimi’s story has done to me. Rather than call ‘Our Brief Heavenly Hour’ a short story, it would fit perfectly as a ‘Personal Letter’.
“Kendi, you have a deep-rooted philosophical soul that is unparalleled in verse! Your poetic style is quite unique.”
-LANCE SHERIDAN
Don’t Wait In The Sun, Dance In The Rain
Your prose is so incredibly eloquent. The metaphors you create uniquely elevate your writing. You convey the joy of love, the grief of heartbreak, and the beauty of healing so intimately and powerfully.”
-PHOENIX WILLIAMSON
Number 27
“Wow! This such a motivational and inspiring story. Everyone's lives have dark days and when I am going through mine, this story would keep me alive. This has given the readers (or maybe me) the strength to keep their hopes on guard.”
-KEYA JADAV
Something Full And Round And Fruity
Wowwwww. This was immediately powerful and compelling…I could feel the grief between the lines, the pain, the fear, but also the love.
-KELLY DENNISON
White Men Police Teeth
You are such a commanding writer. Strong, yet subtle compelling me to dive deeper into my consciousness and perception.
-BETH CONNOR
This was absolutely amazing…your use of metaphors really blows me away. This is such a raw and powerful work of art.
-SAPPHIRE
“It’s like you’ve given words to the unexplainable, and yet it’s so effortlessly put that it’s breath-taking.”
-WANGARE
About the book
Stories are never just stories the same way love isn't just love or hate just hate. With love, you make the life-altering decision to live and die by your lover's side when marriage come along. With hate, you bully a child into submission, into self-loathing, into depression.
With stories, you tell about your share of pain and joy, love and hate and in doing so, you knit a lovely invisible creation that sheds light on culture and history as is in your time. You have the chance to immortalize something with a story, a chance to shine the torch on life. These stories, these histories, are poetic, vivid, full.
Life in no order is a collection of short stories that talk about life, in no order.
About the author
Kendi Karim graduated top of her class with first-class honors in Mass Communication. Her short story, What Does It Mean To Be Kind Anyway, was shortlisted for the Wakini Kuria Prize for children’s literature in 2021. ‘Our Brief Heavenly Hour' has also been featured by Writer’s Space Africa and her work has been recognized by BIC group and EUEPA.
A writer for the lovers, dreamers and believers.
For the hope give-ups, and the heart beat-ups.
Silver Lining by Ash Jay
Kerby and Kayron know each other via Facebook. The little spark they have makes Kerby travel to Mozambique to meet Kayron, a poor guy living in the slums. A whirlwind romance ensues during the few days they are together.
However, the sudden appearance of Kayron's old flame who left him during their final year in college leaves Kerby with a bad feeling. She abruptly ends her vacation and returns to Kenya never to be seen again online. After three years Kayron travels to Kenya in search of Kerby.
The search proves to be more difficult than he had thought especially after he fathers a daughter and commits to settling down as a family. What happened to Kerby? Why did she disappear into thin air? Will he ever find her? Has she moved on? Why did she cut off all ties with Kayron?
4 Minutes by Ash Jay
The results of a medical test show that Dolen has only 72 hours to live. He immediately sets his life on a spree, planning a wedding and takeover of his assets to his soon to be widowed wife.
So, what turn of events drive him at hour 72 to swallow a pill that would snuff out his life in exactly 4 minutes? And what makes his wife of 45 hours teaming up with his close friend and best man, to turn sadistic towards him at his death bed?
With his life ebbing away, the opportunity to mete out revenge is slim. And that is not even the climax of the story.
Never Meet Her by Ash Jay
Bonita Chelimo, a hard-working, humble, polite, condescending, simple and defenseless woman beqrs the burden of the most traumatic past that can ever be visited onna woman.
At age 14, she lost her mother, the one person who could have provided a shoulder to lean on. She is tormented by memories of the atrocities of her step-father and loss of trust from her step-brother.
Will she ever heal from her psychological injuries? Unknown to her, her emotional wounds breed an almost invincible and invisible but also intriguing 'weapon' that seeks revenge and justice in a way that only she knows how. Meet her at your own risk.
Prime Ministers Daughter by Ash Jay
How does a moment of excitement and ecstatic fulfillment of a long-held desire suddenly morph into a horror movie and misfortunes galore? That is the story of Mima Adams.
Having spent all her teenage years without her father, she is so excited that he is returning to Kenya from South Korea.
However, her joy is short-lived after the reunion because her father and grandmother get assassinated in a gory mafia-like ambush. Emerging from a hair breathe escape, she finds herself in a position she could use to hunt his family killers by happenstance. Will she succeed?
I Am Become Death by Charles Chanchori
A Life of Scene by Charles Chanchori
Hello Mother by Charles Chanchori
The Defector by Daniel Silva
Brief Summary
Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel’s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise.
Do you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing, Gabriel. Promise me I won't end up in an unmarked grave.
In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world's most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same.
Mombasa Raha My Foot
The Testament: A Novel by John Grisham
Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one's surprise--especially Troy's--are circling like vultures.
Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humor. Returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder.
Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil.
In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure, their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament.