Ajan Lori Abei
Bio
Writer exploring identity, human behavior, and life between cultures. Sharing reflective essays and observations from an African living in Japan.
Achievements (1)
Stories (99)
Filter by community
I Never Thought Love Would Come With a Download Button
I never thought I’d read the words “He proposed to an AI” and have to pause; not to laugh, but to think. Yet here we are! When I came across the story of a U.S. father who fell in love with a voice-based AI and proposed to it, something in me tightened. Not because it sounded ridiculous. But because it didn’t sound impossible anymore.
By Ajan Lori Abeiabout 12 hours ago in Confessions
Memories Return Again and Again, Unfolding Like Fragrances from Tales Long Lived
On the morning the old house was to be sold, Elias found a cedar box tucked beneath the attic window. Dust hovered in the pale light like unsettled thoughts. The house had stood empty for three years, ever since his mother’s passing, and yet it still carried her presence, faint but insistent. He had come only to sort through the last of her things. Sign the papers. Lock the door.
By Ajan Lori Abeiabout 13 hours ago in Writers
THE EXTRA CHAIR
The first time the chair appeared, it was already set for dinner. Marianne noticed it when she brought the pot roast to the table. There were five place settings instead of four. Five forks aligned like silver ribs. Five water glasses catching the yellow light.
By Ajan Lori Abei4 days ago in Fiction
THE QUIET RULE
(A family keeps one simple rule: never go into the basement after 9 p.m. But when something begins knocking from below - patient, deliberate, and alive - the real horror isn’t what’s waiting in the dark… it’s that everyone else has already accepted it.)
By Ajan Lori Abei5 days ago in Fiction
