ASH FLAKE IN A BLIZZARD sits somewhere between a memoir, a short story collection, and a stack of letters between close friends. It's about the stories we inherit whether we want to or not, the identities imposed on us, and the ones we build for ourselves. It's a series of snapshots, postcards from a thousand hills to the Ardennes… not mere locations, but their echoes, their scars, their hearts. It's also a life distilled into words. From military service, fatherhood, collapse, and reconstruction, Gabriel revisits the moments that made him and traces the path to what nearly unmade him. Told wi...
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18 min
Mon Papyrus
Brussels, June 1999. Gabriel’s bedroom is barely large enough for a bed and a desk. Fortunately, the Internet needs neither. When the modem screeches to life, *Mon Papyrus* opens o…
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16 min
Love at First Tale
Gabriel has invented a microeconomy in Mushubati. For two slices of bread, he can bribe his siblings into endless tellings of Nyashya na Baba, his favorite umugani. Back to the beg…
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18 min
Le Blanc
Gabriel has barely made it back to Africa before Josine starts calling him *Le Blanc*. The nickname lands somewhere between a joke and a diagnosis, especially when he freezes at a…
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13 min
Shattered
Gabriel is running out of time. Hands slick with grease, cold drizzle creeping beneath the overpass, he glares at the broken bike and tries to ignore the darker thoughts assaulting…