This morning I was really hungry unlike yesterday when I didn’t eat till two in the afternoon. And even then, it was biscuit I ate. Coaster biscuit. I ate six of it, which is in [...]
Mar 042012
Amurawaiye Adeyinka
Aug 202011
The first ID card I ever had spelt my name wrongly. There was an extra Y, and the U and an A and the I were missing. My surname is Amurawaiye. A-M-U-R-A-W-A-I-Y-E. My name had [...]
Jul 292011
By the afternoon I ran through our house shouting: “Armed robbers are in the next house!” we had already been robbed twice. Once in broad day light like that day, and the other time in [...]
Mar 072011
I was angry, as I sipped my way out of the swamp. I was totally useless, unneeded. Even my own peers didn’t care that I was attempting suicide. Can you imagine? This anger, made me [...]
Mar 042011
I was born to this earth, a worm. A brown spineless earth worm. And right from when I knew myself, I hated it. I hated that I was an earthworm. I even hated that I [...]
Dec 282010
The Journal: Things are not going very regularly around here for me. And I guess you think it’s a good thing since it definitely means something interesting is happening, but that’s not the case. Far [...]
Aug 192010
She woke up with a nasty hangover, her head hurt, yes of course it was supposed to hurt but then, she had a lot on her mind. Well, she had had a rough life so [...]
Aug 022010
(The words of a proud man) I only read what I write, most people say that’s proud, but I don’t give a fuck. You know what I mean? One time, I dropped my friends laptop [...]
Jul 152010
I don’t like cockroaches, it’s not like I fear them or anything, it’s just that I don’t like them. Believe me I never saw it as a phobia, it was just the general dislike for [...]
Jun 112010
ACT ONE, SCENE ONE. The scene is a class room, the teacher is at the far left of the theologian or clergy man as the case may be. The class is filled with various motivational [...]
Jun 082010
How hard can it be anyway, I think. Well, I do not have any choice really, I think I will die, but I’m not one to give up to Zombies. My heart is racing, as [...]
May 292010
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. [...]
May 272010
It was a cool evening, it was late. The time was past ten. I was studying for my next very important paper, and there was no light (electricity). I had decided to study till very [...]
May 242010
J: Journalist. C: Cockroach J: so many kids are afraid of the likes of you, what’s your reaction to that C: well, from the distance your keeping from me, I wouldn’t say you are quite [...]
May 202010
You see, the whole concept is about, how you would react if this happened to you. You happen to be a normal guy, let’s say a programmer for instance, you get back from a stressful [...]
May 192010
There was an old woman who lived in a tree, she only had one child but she still did not know what to do. You see, the shoe was given to her by the CEO [...]
May 152010
My mum had a Honda, I guess it was champagne in colour. It wasn’t an SUV, no it wasn’t. I guess it was a minivan then. A ride convenient enough to be that of a [...]
May 152010
The music playing in his brain was off tune, yes, it was recognizable but it wasn’t right, it was high pitched and screechy. He removed the earphones from his ear, these earphones had a problem. [...]