“Hello Titi. Can you talk?” I stopped mid-stride, just a few feet from my office door, and read the message, short and cryptic, on my phone...
Ayanfe’s eyes, whenever she laughed, misted over. The tears would fill her eyelids as quickly and as suddenly as laughter rose from her belly, vibrated through...
Don’t dwell on memories of your lost loved ones so much that you forget to create new memories with those who are here.
...if I had not brought him home from the hospital in a coffin instead of a cot.
After a long social media hiatus, I was ready to return to my Instagram addiction. I needed the distraction; something or anything to improve my mood...
“What is this?” It was a dress. One of those cute floral dresses that I owned and loved to wear. Light and comfortable, it seemed like...
What doesn’t help is acting like you are good at a kissing technique when you have no idea what you’re doing.
If anything should end with 2022, it’s the cheesy, creepy and lazy texts.
When we find it difficult to stop self-sabotaging, even when we are aware, it is because we keep making excuses for our behaviour and refuse to...
Do not force non-existent feelings on yourself or on someone who doesn’t feel the same way about you. You are setting yourself up for heartache, either...
Now she calls, the wife, dusk after dusk...
Life is in stages, and rather than being in a rush to move to the next, you should enjoy the stage you are in now and...
There is a buzzing behind my temples. I can almost hear it, like the sound of a mosquito hovering around, making its presence known but remaining...
“Come by the house at 5:30. Be prompt!” You read the text for the umpteenth time and roll your eyes before letting out a heavy sigh....
“You for no wear cloth na!” “Material finish?” “You no see material use?” “You never get tailor o!” On a lazy Saturday afternoon at Obalende, while...
I heard it again, louder and clearer this time. It was the same voice, the one that I had imagined to come from my dreams. Now...
“Who are you?” My mother’s voice was surprisingly low. She spoke through her teeth, sucking in air as she picked her words with deliberate slowness. “Who...
I shot my shot today. When I didn’t think I could, I talked to a complete stranger in one of those awful danfo buses that could...
I squinted my eyes at the glare of light from my phone in the dark as I scrolled through my WhatsApp messages for what would be...
Mother said your anger would kill you. She had seen it before, she said. Her short-tempered uncle – the one you bore an uncanny resemblance to...
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