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The Creation of Half-Broken People

by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

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"Oh!" — Jan 02, 2026 02:35PM

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“She was successful at sustainable unhappiness, stable enough so that she came to work without fail but soaked so thoroughly in misery that each night she couldn't remember what she'd done that day and melted like a rum cake in her whipped-cotton-sheeted, cool white bed.”
― Chaya Bhuvaneswar, White Dancing Elephants

tags: fiction, short-stories, work-ethic

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