‘At midnight, all teddy bears wake up, growl and roll over.’ Tola’s words resonated in my soul. Teddy looked harmless enough in the day, but I could easily see his eyes turn cold, his mouth [...]
Aug 022010
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Jul 292010
The pretty waitress smiles conspiratorially at me as she serves our drinks. Grin translation? ‘You’ve got yourself a good one’. I smile back in acknowledgement of girl code. Not just because I agree with her [...]
Jun 282010
After it happened, I think my spirit vacated my body. I could not move, I could not scream, I couldn’t even cry. I remained rooted to the spot, not believing that this had just happened [...]
Jun 172010
It happened again. I blame myself for succumbing to peer pressure. Now I can only hope that someway, somehow, I can forget the horrific images that have filled my mind. With my luck, it might [...]
Jun 052010
His vomit smelt like a mixture of rotten fish and milk. Hmph. Apparently muscles don’t make you a tough guy after all. If I wasn’t preoccupied, I’d have taken time out to gloat. ‘What will [...]
Jun 022010
9 pm Friday. How did I get here? I sit across this specimen of manhood, and fight nausea at the sight of the partially masticated food stuck between his teeth as he laughs at one [...]
May 312010
So I am one of those who listened with attention and admiration to Chimamanda Adichie’s address on the danger of a single story. Good stuff. Really. So I decided to do some self-examination and see [...]