Tuesday at the Corner Cafe by Oseyi Zack Edetanlen

At a Lagos café, Awele waits to tell her friend she’s calling off her engagement — until a stranger in an identical, torn sweater sits down and recites her plans back to her, word for word. Edetanlen builds dread through a looping jazz song and a repeated text, toward an ending that recasts everything before it.

Read it here: https://kalaharireview.com/tuesday-at-the-corner-cafe-ca331ac97637