“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...
AUGUST 1997 Father was, in his heyday, a bit of a treasure hunter. Mother told me one dark, quiet night when N.E.P.A had done that for...
It was yet another Sunday, and life was taking the same pattern as always for the last six years. His alarm had gone off at 5am,...
‘Chi Chi is there a problem?’ ‘No mama,’ Chinyere replied. ‘You seem sad?’ her mother insisted. ‘Mama…Emeka and I just broke up.’ Chinyere confessed. ‘What happened?’...
She pulled the shawl closer to her body as she walked on. The wind had picked up. She knew she had to think fast or she...
As a child, he had thought of going mad. It was in that summer, with the smell of green trees and the rash smell of scent...
At first, it sounded like a ludicrous joke. But when the bill imposing jail terms on social media critics found guilty of inciting the public against...
Ilemona had just got back from the market and was about to start preparing supper. The sun was going down and Baba would be back home...
Dear God, Mummy and Daddy are at it again today. Mummy’s shouting woke me up. At first, I thought there had been a fire or a...
Walking home afterwards, Adaeze was surprised that everything seemed so normal. The sun was still shining, people were still walking up and down, the regular hubbub...
Silence is how you respond when she tells you, her usually lilting voice that always reminds you of the seaside at dawn now trembling with pain,...
Rhea’s stilettos clicked noisily like distressed night crickets as she ran out of the church hall, and down the cold cobbled pavement. Her heavily rouged cheeks...
I couldn’t let go.The last time I let go, I had no idea that thirteen wild years would pass before his arms shrouded my body in...
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