Your soft voice repeated superstar in my head,

When I walked to school,

When I did homework,

Before I slept.

Today, in our assembly, they spoke about supernovas and superstars.

I was intrigued, and again, daddy, your voice was in my head.

You may be in the cold grave,

But warm filled my heart when I heard you, daddy.

Fear condenses on my lips at the white man before me,

I’m scared, daddy, I’m sc...

Helen stared out at the rapidly darkening sky, eyes glittering like stars in an onyx night as she watched the red and amber stripes fade to a more mundane obsidian colour, as if someone had grabbed the batter to a dark chocolate cake and swiped it over a goldenly baked cake. “I don’t understand, I’ve never met anyone like you before!” She sat on the widows walk above her bedroom, legs dangling ove...