INCEPTION Hotel de Casa. One of the best hotels in the country, and arguably the best in Rivers State. Standing ten stories high, it has twenty rooms on each floor, with the most expensive [...]
Apr 152012
Raymond
Apr 082012
CHILDREN OF THE WILD The birds, they wake me up, Music, of birdcalls, butterflies and sunshine, The night before, a wonder forgotten, For the day holds something new. Out of bed I [...]
Apr 022012
DROP DEAD, GORGEOUS “Of course we’ll do naughty things,” she cooed in his ear, rubbing herself against him. Her left hand trailed sensually down-“So many…”- his stomach – “naughty…” – to cup his genitals- [...]
Mar 012012
103 It was a bad night. He could feel it. Something was wrong. The Ninja was up, and someone, or some people, were going to die tonight. “A Ninja is not a magician [...]
Feb 162012
THORN The first time Ahanna felt it, he thought he’d cut himself shaving. He’d been preparing to go to work that Thursday morning, and he’d been running late. The previous day, and subsequent night, [...]
Jan 032012
7 I drove back to Uche’s office without incident. I wasn’t afraid. And I didn’t regret what I had done back there. There are some lines you just don’t cross. Trying to intimidate me [...]
Dec 292011
A CHRISTMAS TALE (BLOOD AND FIRE) I have a story for you, and I promise you, it is true… …. Christmas Eve, 2011. That’s when I find her. It is dark, almost midnight. [...]
Dec 212011
4 The next day, Uche called me. She sounded a bit subdued. “I just got off the phone with a James Mulligan from the CIA and two military heavy-weights,” she said after we’d gotten [...]
Dec 152011
2 I stared at the number given at the end of the report. The kind of number I was used to seeing. My mind was reeling from all that it had taken in, [...]
Dec 122011
HERE AND NOW This is how the world ends. Not with a boom, or with a gunshot. No. The world ends with a bite. Just one bite; that’s all it takes. A bite that [...]
Oct 062011
From the last one: The Man smiles wider, revealing white teeth. The afternoon implodes. “Hello”, The Man says, taking his hat off to reveal lank, black hair and giving a small bow. Then he [...]
Sep 142011
Camber Estate, August 26th, 2011. It is a dull, warm afternoon; warm enough for most cats, dogs and humans to be asleep. The sun has struck a deal with the breeze; they have decided to [...]
Sep 072011
So I missed my flight. Yes, bite me. E no go reach wetin I bite myself. That occurrence left me in an unprecedented state of depression for 2 whole days. I barely left my bed [...]
Aug 282011
76 He walks on the desert sands, almost running, with nothing but the cold night air, and the heat of his fears for company. He has no idea where or what he is running [...]
Jul 222011
73 Jerry pulled up in front of the four-storey edifice in the darkness as the security guard closed the gate. He turned off his car, and stepped out uneasily. Power was still on, so [...]