Story Berry 12- The Night Sings To Me
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
ONCE UPON A BIBLE WAR
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
Story Berry 10: ABOUT SUNDAYS, CHOIRS AND RANGES
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
Story Berry 9- Christmas Chicken
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
Story Berry VIII- Thank God It's Frinay
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
MARK HIM
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
About My Favorite Novella in Francine Rivers' 'Lineage of Grace'
I bet you can’t imagine the amount of sheer sorrow that filled the earth because of Jesus’ death. Joseph, his father is said to have died before Jesus died. Bible scholars say this and scriptures give grounds to it, especially because Joseph was not heard of in any of theContinue Reading
Story Berry VII: FUNNY KATE
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
ABEJOYE SEASON II LEAVES NO GROUNDS FOR COMPARISON WITH ITS PREQUEL
When news of a sequel to the first season of the 2017 hit Mount Zion movie, Abejoye: The Kingmaker, carried with the east wind of internet gist and came my way, my responsive feeling was fear. I was afraid that what was okay on its own would be ruined byContinue Reading
SCALES AND BALANCES
Hebrews 12:2 “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 11:24- 26 “By faith Moses, when he became ofContinue Reading