Fiction + Short Story

Confessions of a Weeping Man

Pieces of a Man (EP)

Kelsey Ogbewe
CRY Magazine
Published in
7 min readDec 31, 2022
Story inspired by true events and a continuation of the story told in Pieces of a Man (EP). | Photo by Marquise Kamanke on Unsplash

A film of sweat veiled the weeping man’s forehead. He wondered if the clerk behind the desk or the other guests noticed him stumbling back through those automatic double doors. The hotel lobby’s floor was spinning now. Guess the liquor took and hooked its smooth golden grip into his leaping nerves. A surge of warmth…

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Kelsey Ogbewe
CRY Magazine

Poet | Essayist | Artist “You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself…” — Wangari Maathai #WEOC