This time he would obey mummy. He wanted to see that good smile that lit up her face whenever she was pleased with him. He liked that smile. It wasn’t like the one he had [...]
Oct 102011
Uche Okonkwo
Jul 172011
If you attended a boarding school—particularly a rugged one like my very own alma mater—you probably know its own version of what we at LASMOCK liked to call food ninjas. To be a food ninja [...]
Feb 062011
“That’s my letter! He’s reading my letter!” My frenzied whispers were drawing glances from the students sitting on the floor around me. I should have cared about the attention I was attracting, but I didn’t. [...]
Jan 122011
I saw her first from a distance, Adorned with rags and exotic insects. Her signature scent was Very Vile, Hair and makeup by House of Life’s Trials. The world moved on in the midday heat, [...]
Jan 092011
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Jan 062011
Two faces close together, Almost touching, but not just yet. There’s a space between, Narrow like a needle’s eye, Wide as the universe. The world is still around them, Bearing witness to every bated breath, [...]
Sep 302010
She could tell as soon as she looked at him; one glance at her and he knew she could tell. Maybe it was because he couldn’t hold her gaze like before. Or maybe it was [...]
Aug 262010
Don’t believe the hype; being a ghost is no fun. You can’t read minds, you can’t possess people or influence their thoughts or actions, you can’t reach anyone, or anything, physically, and you can’t move [...]
Aug 112010
I heard that song today. It’s funny, but I never thought the day would come when I would hear those haunting notes and not dive under my bedcovers, burying my face in already damp pillows, [...]
Jul 242010
As the taxi drove through the gates and into her brother’s compound, the vague feeling of unrest that had haunted Ada all through the forty five minute flight from Abuja to Lagos heightened. She had [...]
Jul 012010
Now her head was tilted back, her neck exposed, awaiting the kisses that she always said took her to heavenly places – her words, not mine. The man obliged her slowly, as if to heighten [...]
Jun 072010
Rule number one: be smart. No dull yourself. D’boy was not dulling himself. He was lurking around the outer fringes of the small crowd at the newspaper vendor’s stand, looking for a promising pocket to [...]
May 232010
You know all the reasons. You know not to do it. But even as dissuading voices Echo through your inner places You know you have succumbed. Your poison whispers your name, You embrace the velvet [...]
Apr 292010
She comes slowly from the bowels of the building, like one emerging from a trance. Her limbs are laden, so she stops, leaving her sister to walk on alone. She takes in a lungful of [...]
Apr 292010
My heart starts to race as I spot him across the room. Our eyes lock for a second and I wonder if he feels it too – that jolt of pure electricity. He looks away, [...]