The sun has come up and I am sitting by the window that is still foggy with the dampness of the early morning rain. I am...
Sunshine filtered through the blinds of the bedroom window with a bright determination illuminating the dust motes. All was an atmosphere of silence and peace but...
Based on a true story “Jerry! I don dey drive be that oh! Thank you!” She smiled, her appreciation lighting up her deep brown eyes. He...
The weeks that followed were the most difficult of my life. Uche did his best to console me, but the prognosis from the doctor seemed to...
As I drove, a million and one thoughts ran through my head each thought colliding with the other. Even though the traffic was moving at a...
‘I’m pregnant’, I told my friends Ify and Chioma. ‘Eh!’, ‘What!’ both of them exclaimed at the same time. ‘Are you sure?’ ‘How do you know?’,...
A confused and tired Kazie arrived Ibadan one hour later than her scheduled time of arrival. The journey had seemed short but physically, she had been...
The first time Jamal and Nabila were pronounced husband and wife, he was chatting on his Blackberry and she was pushing the food around her plate...
It was a Thursday evening and we were coming from the weekly Farmers’ market when I saw the car parked in front of our house; it...
Ayodele had what some, in this anxious, wary and duplicitous world, would call a serious affliction; he always told the truth. Not just the censored truth...
It had been raining all morning. I sat on the bare floor of my bedroom looking through the window wishing the rain would somehow last forever....
The dry season had come and with it came a multitude of problems. Firstly, I had managed to take the last position in my class for...
I love the rain. I love the smell of the rain, the way it manages to make old things new again. I loved playing in the...
A cock crowed somewhere, its sharp cry lost among the grateful inert. But it was not lost to Jide as he sat in his car, a...
Why does this always happen? Why do I feel like this? It cannot be normal, can it? Here I am again on the seat made of...
On New Year’s Eve, Adie was not among the throng of merry makers on the street where he lived. He had planned to attend the End...
Ask me. Ask me, I dare you, you filthy, greedy, cheating, chauvinistic a**. No I will not have dinner with you when you and I both...
“Gladys, Gladys!” The sound of her name had her springing out of bed. It was late afternoon on Wednesday, and she was back in her bedroom...
I have often wondered how you realise you are in love. Is it the gentle smile that creeps up your lips when you see that certain...
Adunni caressed her belly with a deep satisfaction. After bearing six children her abdomen was still remarkably flat and even now with a brand new life...
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