Lately I’ve barely had time to write a short story, right now I’m grappling with final year project and all the serenren that comes with try to clinch a Bsc. However, I’ve been getting smatterings of inspiration here and there and I’ve decided to string them together intoContinue Reading
Olamide plunked on the couch and exhaled. “Chai! It’s been so long since I came here o. How is your life now?” Deborah blew air on her freshly painted nails before she responded. “Ola, my life is like good moin-moin: sweet but messy” “What? How didContinue Reading
Asake half sat, half sprawled herself on her *agban’tara which was in front of her house. Her house: one of the few in the village with a corrugated iron roof. Usually whenever she observed the village while lounging on her inherited agban’tara, she would feel a sweeping sense of pride,Continue Reading
The night is singing to me A serenading melody; Washing over me With notes of reminders That dawn is imminent -Goodness One thing Okafor Obiora loved about nights was the fact that he didn’t need to close his eyes to see just blackness. The night was a great companion, theContinue Reading
Alheri Kunat flipped back stray lines of her braided hair as she shifted in her seat. She was just waiting for Kayode to pause so she could take down every point he thought he had made and establish hers on the ruins of his. “See, I don’t know about you,Continue Reading
The choir rendered their song, moving together from left to right and clapping their hands over their heads. Timothy Elegbede watched how their gowns flopped around them and he remembered what made him loathe being in the choir, the reason why he never succumbed to his mother’s frequent pleas forContinue Reading
CHRISTMAS CHICKEN Tomorrow is Monday. He will walk into a conference room: head high, brief case swaying in hand, glossy Italian shoes flashing. Everyone around the large desk will stand up to greet him. He will nod a response. The meeting will start right after he drapes his navy suitContinue Reading
Shalewa Marquis stepped into her day grumpy. It was an auspicious day: the sky was azure with the sun glowing in its belly, friendly and full; the palm trees on the far left corner of her apartment swayed their praises; the muddy puddle on the pathway from her house rippledContinue Reading
He wouldn’t shake hands with any lady, won’t share a bench with a sister, he was a vocal advocate against watching anything on TV that wasn’t men’s sport or news. He knelt on rocks when he prayed, fasted every other day of the week. He would not get newContinue Reading
FUNNY KATE Kate wore her sense of humor like a balsamic perfume. You would most likely meet Kate’s jokes before you meet her person. That day while I sipped on the chilled malt she served and rattled on about my experience the previous day in a danfo, she stopped meContinue Reading