Khaddafina Mbabazi

Biography

Khaddafina Mbabazi is a writer and musician from Kampala, Uganda. Currently, she resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is at work on a novel and completing a short-story collection titled History and Memory. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Virginia.

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FICTION / Fall 2020

Transit

By Khaddafina Mbabazi ,  Illustration by Keith Negley

At Heathrow, three hours before her flight to Boston, Thandi was in one of the shower rooms below the Galleries lounge in Terminal 5. A previous tenant—someone who, at some point in the day, had been in there before her, before every inch...