The Naija Stories community is calling on its members and the general public to contribute to an anthology to commemorate the death, Sunday 3rd of June, of 153 passengers and crew of Dana Airlines Flight 9J-992 from Abuja to Lagos and about 10 residents of the houses the plane crashed into.
We want to see the writers among us take this tragedy and turn it into something that we can all connect with. Stories and Poetry have proved to be healing outlets as communities attempt to make sense of trauma. In whatever form we choose to write, we can deal with our emotions, report on how we can do better next time or even give life back to the dead by telling their stories.
We are calling for an mixed anthology that will commemorate Dana Airlines Flight 9J-992 from Abuja to Lagos, Sunday June 3, 2012. Send in Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry from now till the end of June to admin@naijastories.com
You can also register and post your entries directly to the site. Selected Stories will be published in an anthology by the end of July 2012. While we will consider selling the anthology and donating the proceeds to Charity, for now we envision putting it up on this site and others for free downloads.
Our hope is that story will help us as a country to deal with this. This will not be a collection of gruesome reports or stories but a celebration of life. Life is Precious. Stories are Forever.
Let us not forget.
Crew boards the plane to prepare for the flight.
An expectant Meimuna Anyene and her kids. All died in the crash including her husband, mother-in-law and 2 cousins.
One of the air hostesses
The scene of the crash at Iju.
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This is a very brilliant idea. Nice one @Admin
i second your view
i concur with Ayo, and to make it worse, this is my industry, my day job. I remember looking down from 40,000 feet on a trans Atlantic Lufthansa flight a few days ago and pondering the nature of our mortality. What was in the minds of the crew, the passengers? as the plane descended?
So sad. So sad. But then, words can truly heal, inspire and correct. Well done Admin.
Truthfully, I’ve been on a block for a while but I think this will inspire me to pick my pen. My best friend lost 9 of her colleagues at CBN. There’s nothing to say to make her feel better. I can only hope NS will help heal her wounds in some way.
Please extend our condolences to your friend. We really hope this will help.
@Admin, is there any word count?
@lancaster, my condolences to Ur friend…
The same as the general ones on the site. 40 for Poetry and 2500 for Narrative (Fiction and Non Fiction.)
Words won’t even be enough. Nice idea, @admin.
Gosh! Really sad and … Am shot of words. Perfect idea @admin. Please how do we send it in. Is it through emailing admin@naijastories.com? Or is there other ways.
As a member of the site, please post your stories directly. just tag with flight 992 and it will be considered for the anthology.
I just want to shout. Pull out my hair and scream. Cry frustrated tears of rage and pain.
But in the end…
In the end.
Good one admin.
Sorry – I wanted to ask…are multiple submissions allowed?
Okay. Just tag ur story wit flight 992. Yeah! @Admin, is multiple submissions allowed?
So so saddening! I even feel more saddened seeing these pictures.
My heart bleeds….my heart bleeds….i bleed…
i should like to send in something.
all that lost their lives or someone close, we share this pain, if we could stop, we sure would have…
adieu
dein na mu
je nke oma,
they fallen but not forgotten…
@admin, i have sent in mine, a couple……… in one…. you haven’t answered the question of multiple entries.
@aphascea, @seun-odukoya, @louis yes, multiple submissions are allowed.
May their souls RIP. I hope this will go a long way in healing the bereft even if its a little bit. This is really a therapeutic idea.
Pain pain pain…thanks @admin , it could have been any of us …
Even though I did not loose anyone in this accident , I still need healing, this is sad for every Nigerian.
*lose
another minute silence…
@admin God BLESS YOU FOR THIS GESTURE…GOD BLESS YOU SO MUCH…SO ONE CAN SUBMIT MULTIPLE ENTRIES?EHMN….
Tears for the departed
sorrow for the living
despair for the families involved
where does hope come in here?
My heart bleeds, my soul wails,
my pen is not stiff..
@Admin: want to get it clear: poems must not be less than forty words, right?
Yes. That is correct.
Tears for Dana!!!!
Requiescant in pace.
Hmm, this is really sad. Good work @Admin. May Aondo help us to overcome this tragic tragedy and make sense of this senselessness. Kai, Kai, Kai. Kai.
So sad……
A poem of not more than forty words? And I submitted a poem of 220 words. Oya,carry your cutlass and do justice.
Hmm…
Oh LORD. What can I say at a time like this? I hope I can submit something.
I definitely will have something to write!
I pray my timing works well in favour
forty words is quite not too good to me. anyways, will the poem be submitted as an attatchment mail, or should it be posted like every other mail.
Heart rending and wrenching…
I read somewhere that the above picture of the air-hostesses is the wrong one…I think it would be better if @admin does more due diligence on that or takes the picture down. Thank you
@enoquin, how do you mean, wrong?
@Admin I think what she means is that, the pictures of the hostesses you put up in the post is not that of the actual hostesses who served on the flight that day. It is believed that the ladies in the photo above are alive.
Thanks @scopeman we will remove the picture.
But the lady in question is among them…I know her too well. She is Vivian. my neighbor, here in Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos.
Sorry @admin for replying late…scopeman60 answered you correctly…in that group picture when it was posted somewhere else, someone raised an alarm of it being the wrong picture…he claimed to have dated one of the air hostess shown in the picture at a certain time and that he rang her after the incident and she picked. He even referred everyone to her facebook page where she was trying to clear the misconceptions as well…Anyway, I see you have taken it down….well done!