‘Jesus!!’ Okon screamed as he slammed his feet hard on the brakes of the ash-grey Honda Accord. The car screeched violently to an abrupt halt, skewing a bit to the side on the empty service [...]
May 152012
Afronuts
May 022012
It’s amazing how the smell or scent coming from a person can create a strong perception of that person. It doesn’t matter where it’s emanating from. As long as you can perceive a certain smell [...]
Mar 292012
Once again the scribe acts the messenger As I put pen to the paper to register… Per chance you meet the young man called Scopeman He cuts the picture of some wizkid of a [...]
Mar 052012
Every day on this site it’s clear to see The iconoclastic madness of a Kaycee Or the uncontrollable randy banter Of a chick chasing Jaywriter And like a friend’s ping on a blackberry You get a [...]
Feb 232012
*Based on a true-life incident If I could see it coming Maybe I would have stopped you running But alas there’s no appointment Very much to one’s disappointment Before one could stop you After [...]
Feb 132012
Wasiu stank. The atmosphere surrounding him reeked of Indian hemp and the local gin popularly known as ogogoro. Rasaq retched. Fighting hard to stay put from letting loose his innards at his friend’s stench seemed [...]
Feb 042012
Sweat Seeping through my pores Threatening to flash Through the seams of my clothing Nerves Unsettled like disturbed bats Sending ceaseless blood-flow To places where the sun don’t shine Breath Stiffening with inhale Stuttering in [...]
Jan 192012
Abbie finished hanging her washed laundry and began pegging them. From the corner of her eye she could make out a figure peeping eavesdropping from the opposite building. She knew it must be Jay. She [...]
Jan 162012
He plugged his ears with earphones attached to an Mp3, boarded a bus headed towards Iyana Oba, on the outskirts of Lagos and alighted at a bus stop hinted on the paper. He looked around [...]
Jan 122012
Jay scratched his crotch and sniffed as he held up a pair of old binoculars and peered through them. He was standing at the window of his two-roomed apartment which consisted of a bedroom and [...]
Jul 242011
The story of Henry and Dimeji’s predicament wouldn’t have spread well on the wings of rumors if they had been isolated incidents. Soon other instances began to surface, establishing the fact that a horrendous trend [...]
Jun 192011
The pain was small and sharp. Henry shifted uneasily on his seat hoping it would go. It didn’t. He grabbed his desk as he felt it build and shoot viciously through his groin. It [...]
Jun 082011
Dimeji leaned against an abandoned broken down commercial bus that had become a street prop and resting rendezvous for most of the area boys in the vicinity. He lit the rolled up weed and pulled [...]
May 222011
Henry scowled and gasped for breath. The fat greasy man sitting in front of him had just farted. No one needed to tell him. He just knew it. After wolfing down three *Gala sausages, two [...]
Oct 142010
Emeka’s hands trembled on the steering as the Toyota Corolla sped along the tacky tar of the third mainland bridge at a brutal speed. He swerved to the left and right, overtaking vehicles in the [...]
Sep 202010
Sad This drastic life’s feature I portray Woe do I conceive Tranquility of disaster The despair of living How sad Arts construction defy my face Pretext of the century Grin of the melancholy Epidermissal denial [...]
Sep 152010
A sniff of the hanging breeze
Our lungs are disinfected
Maidens of white drift past
Endless times that never last
Solemn fear of silence
Of the cold hands of the reaper
As we lay waiting
In the great room of the invalids
Aug 252010
Three young men had been waiting for her in her room. It wasn’t a new thing for a man to wait for Tola in her room since she had male acquaintances who were always informed [...]
Aug 152010
A gust of wind blew through the campus grounds on a Saturday evening, picking up all manner of dead leaves littered across the academic landscape. Like some mythical spirit, it seemed to give life to [...]
Aug 132010
The Taxi driver thought for a while before deciding to finally succumb to Moji’s pleading to carry her for a thousand and five hundred naira rather than his initial demand for two thousand, five hundred. [...]
Jul 072010
She screamed in her sleep and woke up with a start, sweating profusely. She sat up in her bed, holding tightly to the sheets and panting feverishly. The dreams had been plaguing her for days; [...]
Jun 282010
They would argue and shout at each other almost everyday. It got violent the day Dad slapped Mum. She screamed and held onto his shirt daring him to beat the living daylights out of her. [...]
Jun 242010
It took her ten seconds to realize that an accident was about to occur on the highway. An oncoming trailer had just lost control trying to maneuver round the bend at a breakneck speed. A [...]
Jun 142010
Nadia had a secondary school history of being the neighborhood brat. She had once broken into her class teacher’s office in the after hours of school after a childish seduction of the gateman whom she [...]
Jun 082010
The slight chill of the late evening bit into Nadia’s soft silky skin and she found herself clasping her feet together, burrowing deeper into the sheets and hugging tightly onto her pillows like it was [...]
Jun 032010
‘Segun! What on earth are you doing?’ Segun turned round to see Ada standing behind him in a short red gown, arms akimbo, a quizzical look on her face. He gave a big sigh of [...]
Jun 012010
Shola was worried because she had gotten a call. Somebody had called in from Segun’s office to ask where he had dropped the files for a certain project. She was baffled. Wasn’t Segun on assignment [...]
Jun 012010
Segun’s mobile phone rang and vibrated violently against Ada’s legs. She shrieked and jumped off the bed in fright. It took five seconds for her senses to comprehend what was actually happening. The phone had [...]
May 282010
Tuesday. 11pm A big diesel-powered generating plant sounded into the night as it powered the Chief’s big mansion with electricity. There had been a power cut that evening which had thrown the estate into darkness. [...]
May 272010
The smell of the creams that whiff from her hair seams her soft silky touch to make the man long so much she’s the opposite sex the one who got next to the man the [...]
May 272010
Let me dedicate this little piece to indicate that precious creature called Woman I so much appreciate your being a gentler sex so delicate and the one that completes man yet so intricate your sweetness [...]
May 262010
Saturday. 10pm. Chief Osagie starred hard into the cold eyes of the three men standing before him. They created a contrast to the luxury of the big spacious living room filled with tasteful furniture; Persian [...]