Who could think of relations? Just as the wind blow free is the wind really free? Floating with faces, with heads just like the sun with a million smiles how could you have thought of it sitting right beside each other that should start the cool off The truth can never be hidden, within lies … Continue reading The Chat
It was the slap slap of slippers against the tiled floor that woke me. I hadn’t been asleep long and as I fell out of sleep, my first thought was of robbers and aliens. Then I chided myself. Neither bandits nor otherworldly characters wore flip flops. I shook Richard for almost five minutes before … Continue reading Busted
He knew he had to start with a descriptive scenario that would be followed up with a catchy occurrence, and then continuing on the path of an interesting storyline, (where he would narrate some things and highlight a few, while keeping some things secret) the reader would be compelled to go on to the next … Continue reading Writer’s Block (2)
The following article is not supposed to be read by a woman. Yes, ladies, but you just had to read this didn’t you? Don’t get defensive just yet… And don’t worry, I’m not mysogynist and neither am I a chauvinist; and I think my genitalia is long enough for me not to have to use … Continue reading Men Only
At the most lonely time At the most saddest period At my most bordered hour Sorrows of a broken love I’m thinking it to be Just a try from a long stop My greatest precedent I joined angelica roses My big enchilada emerges -Out of the clouds An enigma like the bride of Barbados Will … Continue reading My Pains
It was on your birthday night that everything changed, it was that night that something died, or someone died I can’t remember; but I can remember thinking about the concept of death, the finality of it; it was not a full stop that still had some more words to be added or a few sentences … Continue reading The Other Guy by Tolu Daniel
“Add these to it, burn everything” “Yes my lady” Dayo collected the box from her mistress and placed it on the clothes in the basket and then she carried it outside. Folasade bent down to pacify her crying daughter “don’t cry I will get you better things than those ones and I will prepare a … Continue reading His Highness (13)
In the previous episode of Shades of Deceit *** *** *** Yewande freed her hands from her sister’s grasp as she closed her up in a tight embrace; it broke her heart to see her sister in such pain. ‘I’ll kill any man who lays his hands on me,’ she whispered to her sister. Laide … Continue reading Shades Of Deceit VIII
He stared at Uche who was lying lifeless at the bottom of the cab trunk. “I guess your hustle paid off” he said “you eventually found peace” He looked and he thought about it for a while, then he decided he had to get rid of the body. This, he knew, was not because of … Continue reading Murder Two (2)
Tick tock Tick tock. You can hear your biological clock ticking. And it’s going so fast the sound almost deafens you. You do what most desperate women do. You go clubbing. The first night, there are more women than men. Women who are in the exact same shoes as you’re in. All but … Continue reading Tick Tock
The Our Lady of Disciples students suddenly stopped laughing in sync. A moment’s silence – pregnant with disbelief – elapsed, before murmurs began bubbling amongst their numbers. They turned to one another curiously, wondering whether they had heard Tomisin’s response correctly. In all their years together, none of Tomisin’s colleagues could ever remember him agreeing … Continue reading Propellers (Part 2 Of 2)
I stopped for a second, to ask him what was wrong, but he kissed me silent, and once again I pulled him towards the bed. He resisted, I tripped and almost fell but he caught me before I could reach the bed, and then started laughing. “What’s funny?” I asked, feeling frustrated, confused and every … Continue reading Quandary 6
For the past six days everything looked normal. Except for the rising tension among the campers, and the warriors coming in every minute, what they are going to face out there is still partially unknown. The only thing they know is that their enemies are big people, and very strong, and to their own advantage … Continue reading The Seven Seas: Chapter Six
No matter what, truth is the Mat to stand, be foe. Rock meet break toe state corded in blood oompah re-echo his mood to rerun water cold insight for all is dew Truth to us, decree go rock forte to do. No matter what we do, smoke on stage unseat for tears fall on meat … Continue reading Sonnet I
The elephant was well and truly in the room or should i say bush!, there was no escaping, there was nowhere to hide, I couldn’t be a wall flower today, I had just found out that today was my day, the day I was to be signed over. One of the older sisters had summoned … Continue reading One day in the Zambesi bush