I Go Go – Payback Time 2
“Are you serious? Do you have any idea the likely consequences of what you’re about to do?” Sheila asks carefully and I nod. Sheila has been my best friend for five years. We met in Read More
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The skies rumbled with thunder. The clouds hung heavy. Rahila was in the small shed outside her husband’s L structure house. It was three rooms arranged in L structure and perched on rocks in front Read More
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I held on to TJ. “TJ please help me! He has a gun! Take me away from here!” “What is it, Mabel?” he asked with a puzzled frown on his face. “Her brother was killed Read More
A Lagos Experience
“Final Bus-stop everybody” The untypical promptness that greeted the pace at which passengers dropped off the bus at the sound of the conductor’s announcement could only mean a thing, it was the last bus stop Read More
No Place Like Home
I’d been awake since about 8a.m but had decided to lounge on my bed for a while, to plan my day in my head. I don’t usually wake up late; the reason for my Read More
Just A Jar
Don’t look at me like some kind of star When I do signs and ye marvel in wonderment. Don’t praise me, please; I’m just a jar – Privileged to be filled with the Master’s content. Read More
Taxi Driver
I am Sammy Adams, a taxi driver. Friends call me Shine Shine Bobo. You will recall Shine Shine Bobo, the byline for Star Lager beer. You know, also, what wonders a cold glass of beer Read More
Skin To Skin
The dark Friday night held many things in its wake. It held the travelling sound of music booming through the neighborhood which came from a well-lit and vibrantly active nightclub – the foremost social Read More
Stronger Than Pain
Sometimes I imagine the universe is a small room with just the two of us in it.There are no rules, the only rules that exist are the ones we make. Our life together has been Read More
My First Ghost Date…
Curiosity kills the cat they say. Good thing I’m no cat, because I’m just as curious as I was when I was two years old. On one of my curious adventures I saw a Read More
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What do I know? When I say “I love you” And you say “I love you” Which is true to be cure Which is true to be pure Said again and again as meaning is Read More
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