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I wanted a place where I could write random thoughts. Unfiltered. To someone who has three or so minutes to waste on musings.

Written by: Juma Reagan

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I'll Be Down By The Shore

Popcorn Pages

I'll Be Down By The Shore

Odysseus was not like you and me, beloved. The man was loyal to his wife, Penelope, whom he had not seen for more than ten years, and for whom suitors were already lining up. He wept every night by the shore, staring longingly at the horizon, thinking of his wife and his son Telemachus.

Juma Reagan

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Apr 15, 2026


To Be A Cadet

First-Person

To Be A Cadet

Humiliation Rituals.

Juma Reagan

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Apr 12, 2026

Housekeeping

First-Person

Housekeeping

“What if you run out of salt in the middle of the night?”

Juma Reagan

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Apr 5, 2026

Outliers and Outcasts

First-Person

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Outliers and Outcasts

Nowadays my generation calls it FOMO. That sense of being left behind, of being an outsider, even when it’s not really your fault. But we can’t all be scouts, and we can’t all be drama students.

Juma Reagan

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Mar 29, 2026

Favourites

First-Person

+1

Rading’

Dec 28, 2025

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10 min read

Rading’

What fun, weird, or memorable moments did 2025 bring? Did you meet someone from Chad? Did a crab bite your small toe?

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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Letters to Cheptolo, II: Lady Santa

Dec 21, 2025

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4 min read

Letters to Cheptolo, II: Lady Santa

Lady Santa visited me the other day. She brought me an early Christmas present and promised me a book early next year. I cannot wait.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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Leaving

Dec 6, 2025

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3 min read

Leaving

She’s accused you of being unserious, of offering no scent of a future, of gambling and drinking away every weekend instead of finding a job, or even looking for one. And each time she left for her sister’s, she came back when your inborn Luo charm convinced her that tomorrow would be different. But tomorrow never arrived.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Archive

First-Person

Somewhere Between Jeevanjee and the Multiverse

Mar 15, 2026

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8 min read

Somewhere Between Jeevanjee and the Multiverse

Lately I’ve been dreaming a lot about time and space. Alternate realities and all that cosmic mumbo jumbo. This is largely fueled by my unhealthy obsession with time travel movies that I’ve been binge-watching.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

First-Person

+1

No Moral High Ground

Mar 8, 2026

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8 min read

No Moral High Ground

In darkness there are no neat lines separating right from wrong. Boundaries exist only in righteousness, for what is good and just.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

First-Person

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Sweet Expectations

Mar 1, 2026

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5 min read

Sweet Expectations

You can almost picture the green screens, the rehearsed pauses, the careful delivery of lines meant to sound spontaneous. Predictable. The tension never quite builds.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

Familiar Faces

Feb 25, 2026

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4 min read

Familiar Faces

Whispered conversations rarely carry good news.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Popcorn Pages

The Sokovia Accords

Feb 15, 2026

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16 min read

The Sokovia Accords

You don’t defeat gods by fighting them, you make them fight themselves.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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Daughter of Scorn, Part II

Feb 4, 2026

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10 min read

Daughter of Scorn, Part II

She comes back to die with her people. She does not want to die in the streets of Nairobi, stepped on and eaten by stray dogs. She wants to be buried like a human being. A human being who, unlike everyone else, dared to look beyond the waters of Nam Lolwe.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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Daughter of Scorn, Part I

Feb 1, 2026

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8 min read

Daughter of Scorn, Part I

Zuri drank greedily. The village began to feel smaller for her each day. She grew tired of their mud houses and of old men whose breath carried rot and authority. She felt the dresses sewn for her did not bring out her bunda the way a girl would want. Worst of all, she dreaded the certainty of her future.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

32 Days of Christmas

Epilogue

Dec 31, 2025

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1 min read

Epilogue

If you made it this far you’re a real one. I hope the year was kind to you.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

First-Person

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Mae e Polo

Dec 30, 2025

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8 min read

Mae e Polo

The music of our land.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

32 Days of Christmas

Same Old, Same Old

Dec 29, 2025

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2 min read

Same Old, Same Old

The calendar flips, but my habits come with me. I carry them on my back into the new year, unmoved by my resolutions, untouched by my celebrations. They do not respond to motivation or champagne.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

First-Person

+1

Rading’

Dec 28, 2025

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10 min read

Rading’

What fun, weird, or memorable moments did 2025 bring? Did you meet someone from Chad? Did a crab bite your small toe?

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

First-Person

+2

Snow? In Karachuonyo??

Dec 27, 2025

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3 min read

Snow? In Karachuonyo??

We were standing at the exact point where most of the area’s trade quietly changed hands. The abandoned well sat at a junction linking Otaro to a narrow dirt highway. Local boys with small bags passed through casually, and with nothing more than a twitch of the eyebrows, they could tell who was a customer and who wasn’t.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan
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