Breathe, Emma, breathe! You can do this. Don’t lose your nerve now! She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. Schooling her features into a practised smile, her expression revealed nothing of the raging battle [...]
Jul 132011
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Jul 122011
“Tari. Tari, wake up!” I jerked awake as Ade shook me vigorously. “What’s the matter?” I scrunched my eyes, lifting my hand to shield them from the brightness of the lights which Ade had turned [...]
Jul 112011
“This is a waste of time,” my husband’s mother said, as my unimpressed 7 month-old daughter spat out the butternut squash and potato puree I spooned into her mouth. “Jo, give her some amala and ewedu instead of this [...]
Apr 252010
“Koko, are you listening to me?” asked Atim as she realized that her cousin had not responded to anything she had said to her in the last few minutes. Looking up she noticed the faraway [...]
Mar 312010
Rose woke up to the sound of the shrill alarm. She groaned, asking herself for the umpteenth time why she didn’t simply replace the blasted alarm clock with one that wasn’t made to startle the [...]