It’s Christmas night, it’s the night that Christ was born but unfortunately, tonight, at least one person will die. I hear his footsteps as he walks...
This is how you get her back: – Get into your car on Saturday morning, wearing the slim Gap jeans and a plain white tee shirt....
The problem was not that Mercy didn’t know what to do. The actual thing she feared was being found out, and most especially the disappointment from...
Duke Town was known for heavy rains and fierce harmattans. In 1821, the trade wind was fiercer than ever. Cold zephyr interspersed with warm sunshine that...
It’s not me, it’s you. It’s not you, it’s me. Potayto, Potato, Tomayto, Tomato, Let’s call the whole thing off. The break up is one of...
Folashade was not in the mood today at all. Bola, her best friend since her childhood days, just sent her an Instant Message about an old...
Nonyelum inhales the afternoon breeze as she winds down the window glass of her car. Glover road is warm under a kite of fading sunlight and...
My first brush with authority was when I was in JSS3. We were preparing for the JSCE examinations- and as was the norm, everyone was sourcing...
Mother took me to her pastor friend’s church today. It is a Sunday morning in February; there is unease in the air: a fullness of gray...
Sally had been up until two am the previous night working on her project. She was bone tired and in no mood to greet the sunshine...
Yanked from a pleasant dream by the shrill sound of the alarm clock buzzer, Moni fought hard against opening her eyes. She would rather stay in...
I left him. I packed my things and left his house. I took all the shoes he bought to mark our achievements together and all the...
“I’m an artist!” she replied to my “What do you do?” She raised her slender arms as she said it, like a magician doing a ‘Ta-da!’....
Ours had been one hell of a rollercoaster ride. We met at university, had the same group of friends and did a lot of things together....
Perfect. He was the personification of perfection- well buffed nails; carefully laid out, colour-coded wardrobe; impeccable table manners and etiquette. Many times Fola would look at...
I knew this day would come. It’d been a long time coming. I saw it as clear as the sun in the blue skies, but I...
They said the school was built over an old cemetery and that some nights, if you looked close, you could see things. Teni told herself that...
He sat there on one of the five very well designed sofas in his living room, an empty bottle of wine stood on the stool before...
My wife becomes a mute when mad at me. She would completely ignore me, pretending not to hear anything I say and, getting her to say...
This is a continuation of A Faith of tWiSts. {Click here to read the first part} *** She sliced the washed tomatoes, pepper and onions, and...
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