It’s a different kind of grief when you cease to exist in the mind of someone you love; when your existence is reduced to a shadow, to elusive grains of sand constantly sifting between the fingers that once held you. The stab of loss hits different when you look intoContinue Reading
I get to see Wallace again after how many years? Twelve? Fifteen? And the spot fate chose for this great reunion is my hobnobs hideout. You’re probably wondering why I have a hobnobs hideout. Why do I have to hide to eat hobnobs? No, that’s probably not the firstContinue Reading
“I saw Emerie with a guy down at New Haven.” It’s almost like a casual remark tossed absently as he tapped on the console of his game pad, but I know that edge. That edge in his voice that came before one of his whirls. I swallow,Continue Reading
There are days like this when you are caught in a dreary swamp of memories. They come flooding in and swelling all around you till you can think of nothing else. You used to be a happy child. Happy, chatty, delightful. You were the kid whose handContinue Reading
TOO YOUNG FOR THAT – Episode one Amaju Izokiri paced the floor of the cluttered room he shared with Tega. He was restless, livid, unwilling to accept the content of the mail he’d just received. He glanced at his phone screen again and hissed. He was the one who pitchedContinue Reading
Ebuka walked down the school corridor like a floating mass of colors. He was that student that was the unending fascination of all the other students; the SS2 boy who had shining grades, a good rapport with his mates and even seniors, he was a spectacular striker on theContinue Reading