Shalewa dodged the nurse quickly enough to avoid a head-bump. She was late for her practical class because of the stupid stomach upset she’d had all...
She feels herself rising into consciousness from the restless sleep she has had. Getting up as stealthily as she can manage she glances at the digital...
You don’t think of love on February 14, when the chair opposite you sits idly and leans against the table, casting its shadows against the sunshine-yellow...
It was 11:48pm on March 15, my twenty-first birthday and the third time I stared at my phone patiently waiting for your call. It was a...
When I was younger my mother told me “Koko be content with what you have”, she practically drummed it into my ears but I never understood...
Hours later, the ladies were relaxed on the patio of Ini’s apartment going through their shopping bags. They were all smiles—another satisfying day of shopping. Quality...
It was 4am on a chilly November dawn in Durham. Leonora clasped her arms around her knees which she’d drawn against her chest to her chin...
The little boy’s pose would have made Auguste Rodin proud. He sat on what was once the concrete base of a streetlamp with his chin on...
The pungent smell of rotten cheese woke me up. I batted a damp piece of fabric off my face to the floor: a purple lace underwear....
For most of her life, Ezinne felt like she lived in a cage, in a barricade despite the affluent lifestyle she had been blessed with. Having...
“All you leg shakers and rats, do you wonder why you are dullards in the classroom, unproductive in the fields and listless with your families? Of...
She had lived a long life. The old woman thought this as she peered at the quiet street below her. She had lived a long life....
It was an NYSC tradition to hold a bonfire on the last week of camp. Corpers had expressed shouts of joy on the parade ground the...
They would come every year, arriving suddenly at our home with their chatter in a language I struggled to greet in. My late father’s two sisters...
Hadiza dearie are you in?” I opened the door reflexively, I hadn’t even heard the knocks. They trooped in, what some would call my entourage. My...
“Could you zip me up, please?” Daye swallowed as he zipped up the dress, desperately trying not to look at the fastening of her pink lacy...
The room started getting hot and stuffy despite the ORL fan blowing at maximum speed in full swing, I started breaking out in beads of sweat....
“A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man...
There are certain things that do not change. The sun rises in the east. We eat rice on Sunday night. Every last Saturday of the month,...
It’s a glorious Sunday morning. The clock on the wall reads twenty minutes past eight, and as I lay against Jimi’s well-built body, I note to...
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