The Crying of an Owl
These woeful cries Echoed to deafen my ears Like a squelching cargo on mount climb I felt my broken rib, Wriggling in my emasculation For my whole being is in fracas with its faction This fellow’s cry is a friend rather fiend As the stormful breeze blows, I bend To hear its voice of reason […]
Till Lies Do Us Part: Part 5
As I parked in front of James complex, I asked myself, “So this is where Cynthia has been hiding all this while?” She laid in my best friend’s bed while mine stayed cold for months. I came out from my car; pushing the door close with all of my strength, I thought I must have […]
Adriana the Hourglass Girl 3 (Decoy)
Discovering Sina (The Driver) My Naija people I hail o ! I hope you all are enjoying this series, i’m promising to give you all something better with each new publication, that’s an affirmation. Adriana the Hourglass girl is strictly for the grown and matured minds (18+), so if you know you are not please […]
Orunmila’s Letter-Episode 10-The Acquaintance 3
John’s sermon on the second day was most impactful and insightful. He taught on righteousness and expounded on its meaning,implication,and fruits.”You’re not righteous because you’re rich,or because you don’t lie. Your righteousness is of God and not your good deeds. He qualifies the called and not vice versa. See,when a drunkard receives salvation,he doesn’t stop […]
The Thrift Collector
At this time of the day, the crows have roosted, the dogs in their various kennels sleeping or keeping guard, the cats having their naps and the neighbourhood snoring. Gentle, cold breeze, resulting from the earlier rains was blowing over the area. Everywhere was calm and everyone asleep — well, everyone except Tayo, the thrift […]
My Boss’ Wife: Episode 10
“What are you doing?” Busayo asked as soon as she entered the hospital room. “Ooh Busayo, I was thinking you weren’t coming again.” “Not coming again? Noo, I would have arrived earlier if not for the traffic.” She said smiling. My son had been discharged from the hospital and I was dressing him up when […]
Adindu The Village Drunkard
Nothing make more sense, Than his always on-hand bottle. Nothing muscles more strenght, Than the liquid content of his green bottle. Nothing stops his pace’s escape between space, Not even his soaked face can ‘normalcy’ talk to. It triggers-off his truthfull and semi false stream. In his words, ‘A man is never drunk of what […]
Angels And Humans
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Sarah 6
The first week of October brought a few changes to my life. I had been attending St. Joseph’s for four weeks. I had even gotten acquainted with a few of my classmates. That week had teachers announcing that we join school clubs we were interested in. The school choir and the drama club seemed to […]
Naija 2060: Season One: Episode Two: The Praying Mantis
Episode 2: The Praying Mantis Day: 1 Month: February Year: 2060 Time: 8:30 PM Nonso was having a good time. He’d lost track of how many girls he’d danced with or indeed how many numbers he’d been able to get. Some of the prospects looked very promising indeed. Who needed a girlfriend when you could […]
Flesh and Blood
With a thorn in my side, i write this, With my very last breath, Hoping for the dramatic, a last resolve on my side, with your very love i have lost This rose that i bestow upon thee, A bush of roses with thorn, i beseech thee, To endeavor to remember me, In my very […]
The FEAR Magic!
I kicked my right leg violently against the wall as I walked through the passage that led to dining room upstairs. When will he change? I was coming from Father’s room, and we just had a tete-a-tete that made me really mad at him. Why wouldn’t he just allow me tell the principal he was […]
Love Like Knife
Love like knife It’s power, gentle, but controlling Just like life It is inevitable, but intoxicating – Dean Bin’Jamiu Twenty four hours ago, if you had caught a glimpse of his heart, you would have seen love circling it, like the loops of the Olympic symbol. But some minutes ago, his heart shattered like a […]
Till Lies Do Us Part: Part 4
“Victor please, I can explain.” She said. We all begin with those same words but can we really explain a thing? I threw my car keys on the bed, asking her to begin if she could. I couldn’t stop laughing as she pleaded with me, it was as if I was about to run mad. […]
And It Rained
Sometimes I wonder, but deep down in me I pray, prayer for d raining days to come, since our cloud has gone black and our soil gone famined leaving our sheeps devoured by d wild beasts, the little left for d minors are beign shared by d rich, the news are tragic and terror defined […]