EPISODE 6 I stood statue still as I stared at Kingsley, his hands still on my shoulders, my heart beating ten times its normal speed, and I think I was about to hyperventilate because Kingsley said in a soothing voice (a soothing voice!) it’s so creepy for your kidnapper to talk to you in a … Continue reading Ada. Episode 6
It is true that we live but to die, but life itself becomes death when there is no certainty of tomorrow. That was what life became that morning. That morning I heard the thundering voice of what they call bomb for the first time. Father, like a frightened dog, barked at us. ‘Get under the … Continue reading A New Beginning
The night is far spent As darkness awaits the dawn Darkness waits creation dawn The cockcrow has crow Ushering the dawn of a new day Waking my sunshine In the sunshine of the day Radiating in the glorious sun of the day I look forward to the day when we be together To wake … Continue reading Wake Up Mylv
When I read you Achebe In there was a country my heart an infant not only my eyes rained ocean but the many pores For the many innocents and blood of the guerillas For the brother-poet, Okigbo and the pregnant woman that in the market bomb mutilated For the kiss of death of many children … Continue reading There was a Country
SYNW promises to make 2018 eventful The president of the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW), Mr Wole Adedoyin, has promised to make 2018 eventful, saying the group would be coming up with several poetry competitions in order to develop the talents of young writers. Adedoyin stated this in a chat with Arts and Review … Continue reading SYNW promises to make 2018 eventful
These cascaded tears are black in complexion, I started arranging them when I was fourteen. These broken stars are the horizons of fear, I started numbering them when I was ten. These words were the scars seen in the smile of my mother after my father left, I started counting them when I was only … Continue reading Solitude
Let’s create two cities: death and tears, We’ll name our tears shitholes because we’ve forgotten why we were called so by he whom power rests on his shoulders. These memories of ours we titled death are fragments of our mistakes left in the bodies of innocent Benue. Let’s bake this situation in hundred feet fold … Continue reading And Benue Tears Cried
I know why an average Nigerian doesn’t smile His stomach hurts from hunger And his throat drier than the desert His heart is heavy and full of worries His mind is as the wall clock working day and night He has no house Only the old wrapper he laid on empty street. He was a … Continue reading I Know Why An Average Nigerian Doesn’t Smile
“krrrrr” ( alarm rang). I woke up and glanced at my golden table watch” its 8am” I said solely with white flakes in my tiny eyes. I jumped down from my bed and moved hurriedly to the bathroom. I cleaned myself and put on my cartoon silver shirt with a black dirty jean and rushed … Continue reading Road to Fame
Papa had made me, though not conscious of it himself, fall in love with the moon. Since the sects that Papa referred to as ‘twin brothers fighting for the breast of their mother’ began the clash that he said would change the face of Nigeria totally, his stories were not about his days in England, … Continue reading A Lesson from the Moon
after Odumegwu Ojukwu after Chinua Achebe after Christopher Okigbo after Dele Giwa after Kofi Awoonor after Kwame Nkrumah after Ngugi Wa Thiong’o after Nelson Mandela after Wole Soyinka after Leopold Senghor after Flora Nwapa I am part of this ancestry black struggle For Africa to be reckoned in the world not of ancient historical context … Continue reading Python Dance
Beating Heart CH 01 The knock was soft and hesitant with a hint of trepidation. She took a deep breath calming her beating heart. Delicate fingers rested against the cross carved into the solid oak door. The smoothness of the wood beneath the skin of her fingertips sent a slight tingle down her spine. … Continue reading Beating Heart CH 02
Ben stared at his wife picture for the first time in 3years. He stared hard at it waiting to feel that familiar pull in his heart that always came with his wife’s image. When nothing happened, he dropped the picture disappointed. He was dead emotionally. He didn’t need a doctor to tell him that. Any … Continue reading Sad Memories
It’s funny and crazy how people often find reasons and excuses for doing wrong things, especially cheating on their partners/spouses. This is quite sad and pathetic, and how they tried to sugarcoat it with various reasons to make it morally acceptable. Cheating to me is a result of greediness and selfishness. It’s not funny when … Continue reading Cheating In Relationships (My View)
I looked at the faces present in the room, I shook my head, none of us can be saved, this gathering is a useless one, as if reading my mind, the instructor said. “No one is totally broken, and no one is beyond repairs, this gathering is not about what to do or what not … Continue reading No One Is Totally Broken (Flash Fiction)