NewsRoundUp 040523

NewsRoundUp at this time sets out with the shocking story from Egypt of a Mum allegedly hacking her 5-year-old son to death and then cooking and eating his head. According to the local Egyptian media report which also claims the suspect committed the crime with a machete and cooked and ate part of his head, her arrest has been effected after the boy's horrified uncle found body parts in buckets at the home in Abu Shalabi, Egypt. Officers were shocked when the suspect, Hanaa, confessed that she had eaten part of her son's head because she "wanted him to stay with her forever".

WARD9ice | THE WAY OF THE WORLD

OTSEMOBOR is an undergraduate student. No, he is more than a student. I mean, he could approach anything in a skirt no matter the given circle. He’s gifted in the act of winning over the opposite sex and has done this severally in favor of his peers and himself. There was this exclusive party to be hosted by a popular Governor in West Africa. Of course, Ose was not invited. But he had all the details. Don’t ask me how because I don’t know ‘how’. Anyway, he found his way into the party and without long he had spotted his catch.

“ Hello!” he said confidently as party jams fill the atmosphere.

“ Hi!” the lady responds arrogantly. 

“We seem to be the only ones not catching the fun at this party, don’t you think so?” he fired.

“Please, excuse me. I’m not interested in the pleasure of any conversation. Thank you!” she snapped.

XCLUSIVE INTERACTIVE | SASHA VELOUR

Sasha Velour

XCLUSIVE INTERACTIVE courtesy, Interview Magazine features Sasha Velour in an interview with Mikelle Street captioned: Sasha Velour Delivers a Long Drunken Drag Bar Speech

On season nine of RuPaul’s Drag Race (which she ultimately won), Sasha Velour developed a bit of a reputation. She was called the face of Brooklyn drag, with performances that were both artsy and extremely studied. And it’s true: Sasha Velour is a glossy, living piece of art, but she also thinks deeply about who she is, what that represents, and the impact she can have. This all crystallizes in her new book The Big Reveal, which is part-memoir, part-drag history, part-manifesto, addressing queer expression and gender variance at the macro level, literally beginning with the Mesolithic age, and also the micro, sharing intimate details of her post-Drag Race reign.

Ward9ice | Strawberry Jam Under the Sea

WARD9ice this moment brings you curtesy, reedsy.com,  Strawberry Jam Under the Sea, a story entry submitted into Contest #192 by Aeris Walker about someone stuck in an endless cycle who finally manages to break free.

I am swimming, thrusting my arms through golden water—golden-like oil. The water grows thick and syrupy, then it pulls me under. I’m in a bottle, glass sloping above me. Someone tilts and pours, and I slide onto a pan, palms burning from the heat. I slip and roll in the slick spill. Steam rises off my wet hair. Then I am smothered under the sticky weight of raw meat.

“Mommy, can I sleep with you?”

The voice startles me, a breathy whisper in the dark. Then it comes again.

“Please? I had a bad dream.” Jack’s lisped dweem melts my heart, and I can’t say no.

FLAUNT YOUR LEISURE | Prince Batholomew Enehi

 

TAKEAWAY | DID YOU KNOW that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?

DID YOU KNOW that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?

Search for Grace is a 1994 American fantasy thriller television film directed by Sam Pillsbury from a teleplay by Alex Ayres. It was produced by CBS Entertainment Productions and stars Lisa Hartman Black and Ken Wahl. The film tells the story of Ivy (played by Hartman Black), a landscaper who leaves her long-time boyfriend to be with the mysterious Johnny (Wahl). Ivy begins experiencing flashbacks to the life of a long-dead woman named Grace (also played by Hartman Black), whose life in 1927, including her doomed relationship with the gangster Jake (Wahl), mirrors her own.