LIKE A DREAM (Episode 5)
Hello once again, my wonderful readers. Last time, we were all eager to know what happened to Giorgio after that horrific accident on the third mainland bridge; well, today’s episode provides the answer. GENERAL HOSPITAL IKEJA Monica was asleep on the bench in the waiting room when someone tapped her on the shoulder. “Aunty, aunty…” […]
The vengeance of omoge omi (Part 1)
Through the small window, a moon as dull as a dozing lamp shines hopelessly through the room. Dancing across the earthen walls are giant shadows that seem to obey the wind-battering flame from the lamp behind the three children eating on the raffia mat. “Ajadi, your share is too big!” Lolade, an eight year-old girl, […]
Reflection 2b
Jumai tastebuds were ecstatic. Never in her life has she eaten something that good. The man reminded Jumai of something she once had. Luxury. Maybe not luxury per say, but the look in his eyes, the way those eyes looked at her brought back a familiar feeling. She straightened her cloth and hair, this time […]
Tears
Tears Have you ever loved someone so much that you shed tears while thinking about the person? Have you ever been so frustrated that you broke down in tears when no one was watching? Have you ever hated someone so much that the presence of the person bring tears to your eyes? Have you ever […]
Beautiful Colors of Sin: 3b
Jamal was the only son of Alhaji Buhari, a wealthy businessman that manufactured Pharmaceutical products. He was in his early thirties, tall and good-looking. After our meeting at his father’s office, he asked for my card. I shrugged but gave it to him and thought nothing of it until he started sending me suggestive text […]
A Means to an End – Episode 3
On the Monday of the second week, she entered the office, quickly picked her documents as usual and was arranging them into her bag as she walked down the hall when she felt a hand brush her right hip. She halted and her first impulse was to turn around and give the person a deafening […]
When ideology overcomes biology
When you sit there in your dressing Counting your blessings as some are weeping 78 souls given relocation In the capital city of my nation You go to bed kissing Someone else goes missing In the name of fun In Kansas USA a gun man kills 69year-old and grandson A prayer for the lost kid, […]
Tell God We Are His Children Too! (A Response)
@Omoniyi-Adeshola He never forgets His own. We forget by whom we are owned. When we mete out to Him irreverence, How then will suffering not blithe our existence? He was the willing sacrifice, such love cannot spring from a throne of ice. If we knew any better, we’d realise we are the reasons we suffer. […]
The Travails Of Eve’s Daughters. Chapter One, Part Two
“I just received a promotion letter detailing my new status as an executive director of my firm, isn’t that great mum?” Liz laughed, “My year of toil has finally paid off.” She sat in her office on the thirteenth floor of Finacorp Trust house twirling the cord of the earphone as she spoke with […]
When Evil Walks: 1
It was five o’clock in the Morning and the cocks were still not fully up. She was cold but she knew she had no choice but to be in that weather or else she would not get to where she was going early enough. To her, Ogun state was a far, far away place and […]
Room 25.. the sooner you get here, the better.
“…the sooner you get here the better.” Or so you thought. No one told you that suddenly you’ll be so free, so left alone that it’ll make you afraid. Since 18, people have learnt not to cross your lines, to let you be and you had basked in that freedom. You’ve been left on your […]
7lives
7 lives 7lives arose eyeing half hatched dawn 7 lives all said wife i go go make u come 7lives hats in suitcases rushed their hasty mattews give us our day’s bread in manner of devoted jews 7lives saw the glassy world from diverse lorry windows lorry driven to 6ft bus stop pebbled in their […]
The Apocalypse
Oh fellers, fell no more woods, Fell no woods anymore for sarcophagus Here is come with us massive massacre Of the masses from the intellect That instinct is only element left Fell no trees in vain Say to bury the dead As in quantum we now die So do we be quaffed off Like […]
Boom the august resident Lee
Boom the august resident Lee that has gotten so much from me. Ask his wife to render his thrust- resident Lee, boom the august. Under my roof is where they stay: Lee, wife and his children I say. For yet to rely on this proof, is where they stay, under my roof. In […]
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Who Am I Without You: Part 7
As I woke up this morning, I began to think about what my life would have been like if I never got involved with my Ex husband. Well that would mean no Dare, and quite frankly I don’t think I would miss either Bolu or my child. “Gosh I need some breathing space!” I said […]