Specimens of Those Who Wanted to Leave
By Elisha Oluyemi
Elisha Oluyemi is a Yorùbá writer, editor-in-chief at Fiery Scribe Review, winner of the 2022 Lagos-HCAF Writing Contest (Prose), and 1st runner-up winner of the 2022 Shuzia Flash Fiction Contest. He co-edited the PROFWIC Crime Fiction Anthology, Vol 1, and mentored in the 2023 SprinNG Writing Fellowship. His writing & conversations appear/are forthcoming in the 2023 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing, Broken Antler, LYRA, The Bitchin' Kitsch, Mystery Tribune, Isele Magazine, Terror House, Sledgehammer, Brittle Paper, Salamander Ink, Stripes, & elsewhere.