You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi

“You fill me with light till I feel like I’m about to splinter apart from it, so there’s that. It’s a feeling I’d like to keep around.”

Alim was looking at her like she was precious and delicate and worth more than he could put together in a lifetime.

she felt so perilously alive.

Always look at me.

Alim smiled at her, and it was like the sun was fighting to push through his skin, he was so bright with feeling.

“Imagine that, Feyi. We’re alive, and I love you.”