Magogodi oaMphela Makhene Magogodi oaMphela Makhene has been published in Guernica, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Granta. An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, she is a MacDowell Fellow, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award and a Caine Prize honoree. Makhene leads Love as a Kind of Cure, a social enterprise working to dismantle white supremacy. She lives in New York.

Indians Can’t Fly | Fiction

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

The blue of the water was a bright electric hue. It made sounds: clapping rain sounds, trickling ice sounds, running water; water running… rushing in cold waves and against river rhythm. Splash! Spumes exploded. Spit spray. Water breaking on the ceiling shore. The waves blocking out cries from the hose welting rubber into her back, hoarse shouting rattling something free deep inside her ear. The water blocked out the barking....