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Rutendo Chidzodzo is a Zimbabwean Afrosurrealist writer with roots all over. She is a recent alumna of the Clarion West and Tin House workshops, as well as UMass Amherst’s MFA in Fiction program. She is currently working on a speculative short story collection exploring the lives of Zimbabwean immigrants across the diaspora.


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13 Jul 2026

The guillotine was conceived as swifter, painless, more humane. You touch your throat. You wonder.
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