Where Sleeping Girls Lie

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

And then she smiled at her and Sade wondered if Persephone knew that she had the most infectious smile in the entire world. Maybe even the universe.

“I want to sleep and forget this year even happened,” he said.

“They really need to stop having those pointless emergency assemblies. I feel myself literally losing years of my life,” Baz said.