an addiction to the pain the feeling running through her veins how could she love him so much nothing matters,but she being in his touch tears in her eyes,broken inside she told me,i listened,sat by [...]

Emerging writers are requested to submit any piece of prose of no more than 5,000 words. Thirty pieces will be selected from the submissions, and the writers will be invited to read five minutes of [...]

Insane in the Membrane  “When the baby is born, you wrap him in this towel. None of that diaper nonsense” “Babies, they don’t know diaper or towel. They shit too much.” The mid wife bit [...]

I have failed the second time trying to maintain a weekly post on my blog; in between my daily hustles and in the past two weeks being very occupied with ‘occupying’ Nigeria, I tried to [...]

Chapter Three The Thief It had been raining heavily when Eshury appeared in the forest, his gray robe dirty, and his sandals worn. Eshury was your average looking boy with dark eyes. There was nothing [...]

As Victoria drove over to pick up Ayomikun, she couldn’t but think about her conversation with her pastor’s wife. She had always admired the love and commitment between the pastor and his wife. She realized that every one [...]

The contemporary Nigerian youth is in a perilous state. Perhaps his ignorance of this peril is more pernicious than the reality of the peril. The youth could be best described as a victim of ‘sensory [...]

Sanity slowly returns… Swiftly, I sit atop the mess I have made Trying to hide it from prying eyes Trying desprately to erase The lines of truth inbetween the lies To don the mask of [...]

  The old man’s most powerful ploy, if you could call it that, was his ability to, with just a single lift of his brows or an almost imperceptible tilt of his head, sow a [...]

I felt that it was necessary that I talk about this issue especially as regards to my people. My people here is in reference to the Akwa-Ibomites. This was necessary after I wrote THE TRAVAILS [...]

WARS, WARS EVERYWHERE AND NO PEACE It is said that if there is no war, there is no peace. But unfortunately, even if there was peace, it never lasts. It can take towards the end [...]

Loud wails filled the whole ward. The wailings and lamentations shook the vast premises of Saint Vinci hospital. For the first time in his over twenty five years career, Doctor Ajulo was visibly shaken. He [...]

Now, we’re lining up to school and work At the end of a crazy quirk Going outrightly berserk We still sleep and rise in a murk   Oh! The face of corruption Is shining brightly [...]

  There is a very popular but quite ancient, rustic bicycle repair/rental shop in a street around the Works/By-pass bus-stop area, in the general vicinity of Oyemekun, Akure. It seems to be the only one [...]

Her car suddenly broke down in the middle of nowhere. It was running one moment and then it spluttered and died on her the next moment. It was unbelievable and her first reaction was to [...]

Have you ever stopped to wonder, have you ever stood to ponder Have you ever sat to think, who made the water that you drink, created the ground on which you walk, and gave you [...]

In rush hours, our dawn did set, As we marched, wielding piles Of intellectual volumes We stood to master, As time took us Faster by the hand. Our sun shined brighter In the renewing dawn, [...]

The church bell sounded. It sounded again, then I began to count. It stopped at the twelfth sound and then, I realised it was twelve a.m in the morning. Just as I looked at my [...]

Poem is a gift i think am given Occasionally it comes my mind Especially when depressed I am Mostly to express my emotion Hearing your voice Is quite a gift Knowing your face May still [...]

Tired of counting fingers Still the thought of you lingers Yes, i would wait for you Here in this shades of blue I call this ‘missing you’ Sure hope you feel it too Spring time [...]

MY LAST LEG On my last leg Rotting away and nearly severed From the stalk, I ponder On my flesh’s final fate I brood, heavy of heart For terribly shall I miss Its sweet fragrance, [...]

The clump of mucous floated lazily through the air. It split into smaller units and picked up speed as gravity took over. One big blob gave birth to two which further divided themselves. By the [...]

Victoria left home very early in the morning to avoid another episode with her Mum, especially now that her father who always have been a shoulder to cry on had traveled on a business trip. [...]

We shall pack our shabby shirts in the bogus bag When we embark on our sorrowful sojourn.   We are at the point of no return, At the highest level of the boiling point (‘Can’t [...]

It is a bright Wednesday morning. I walk into my Alma-Mater, Akwina Federal College of Education, preoccupied by a sense of urgency. I have only forty-eight hours to get my transcript and return to Ghana [...]

1: HAPPY THOUGHT   For many years in the far and near past, I have always thought of when I will again set my foot into my father’s land ;the land of my birth. I [...]

Most readers these days especially of poetry adopt the scanning system. They look at a piece of work in a few seconds, appraise  and discard it. Such a reader would skim through the first pages [...]

THE LIONESS On the hills of the eastern grasslands Is where she leaves her pride and starts to watch Fore and hind legs bent to form a triangle As claws shelter the sands beneath From [...]

A man heard a knock at his door, opening the door, he found a stranger with a big briefcase standing out door. “Hello Sir”, the stranger greeted grinning . “I am here to tell you [...]

Continued from part 1… During the arithmetic lesson (the subject just before break), Ramota being the devil she was suddenly took my bag and fled outdoors. Her actions surprised me because I didn’t understand why [...]

New Year Resolutions I resolve never to resolve As in my pledge of the past To soar in height and wave Beyond myself and best I resolve in this new morn To stand strong at [...]

Anytime I watch romantic Nollywood movies, I am always irritated; the couples act western for reasons I don’t understand. In such movies, when the lover boy – usually played by Ramsey Noah or Desmond Elliot [...]