His name is Dogg. He was christened Dogg. At the tender age of eight, he was the sweetheart and heartbreaker of almost half the girls in his school.  He would “take care” of them and Read More

”I don’t think I love you anymore” Blood was rushing to my head. I felt myself sway. What was he saying? What was Emeka talking about?? Focus. ”I think it’s best I’m honest with you” Read More

So I am one of those who listened with attention and admiration to Chimamanda Adichie’s address on the danger of a single story. Good stuff. Really. So I decided to do some self-examination and see Read More

If you’ve read my tagline, you will know I’m probably the last person to be writing this. If there’s one place my writing talents don’t extend to, it’s the world of romance. Not that I Read More

She sat still in the atmosphere of a cemetery. Lolade looked grim at the barren lines of her paper. Others with swollen pupil having held sleep hostage filled the gaps. She was at a loss Read More

He moved, leading the troll They all depended on him I did, still do Are we on the right track? They ask Yes But I see a mist Do you have faith? Do you trust? Read More

“When Words Fail You” was supposed to be a one-off but I am trying to see if I can write anything longer than a short story… Here’s chapter 2.

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She was just been openly jilted by her boyfriend.  After their dinner, he told her that he had fallen in love with someone else, a more beautiful lady than herself.  They had been inside a Read More

JUST A PHONE CALL You may always have me to miss And we may never always kiss But it will always be okay Cos I’m just a phone call away All you got to do Read More

It’s classified. Men are bastards. Dunni just called me. Apparently, Queen Bitch is in town. Yes, Nasir’s girlfriend came in from London yesterday AND she’s going to be in town for a little over a Read More

I knew I was going to die. I was hanging with my life but I did not want to die. No one just wants to die like that (and in the manner I found myself. Read More

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Come stroll a calabash with me… Come stroll a calabash with me Come stroll a calabash with me Come stroll a calabash with me A calabash with me, a calabash with me ——- Here I Read More

I always knew I am beautiful. From the time I was three, I had been turning heads. If there was ever an impromptu beauty pageant at a birthday party, I was picked to wear the Read More

It beats so hard That on the mirror The shapes arrange The consciousness Trying to please Please so hard You forget who you are Becoming what you are now, What they want- No! The effort, Read More

Your several denials Have bred pain in my inside So I say to my mouth “She deserves no space near my mind” Cast her out in the open With the regalia of roaming loons Then Read More

How slow time passes by when you are in pain. I guess its life’s own subtle way of mockery. I’ve been sitting here in front of my laptop all day trying to come to term that Read More

I try to hold you. All I have is the clasp of the wind. I long for the weave of our lips sucking  out the breath of our lungs. Standing in the lonely space barren Read More

A weak vessel of exhumed beauty ——– A fly girl with borrowed hair of the finest quality, yet an abode of stench spends insulted money ——— A petite gamine with a voice of dominance her Read More