“Are you trying to burn my tongue?” she would ask. Any attempt to reply would earn him another slap. If he did not apply enough pressure while giving her a foot rub, wham! A slap would land on his face. Or back. The slaps came without any warning and were delivered according to a […]
I heard the tiny laughter in the silence of the dizzy night. He was cuddling her again like he always did. I got up from from the bed I had inherited from my bony grandpa who preferred using oil and salt to eat yam to using vegetable soup. I really cannot lay my hand on […]
“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.” – Voltaire, Candide. A series of emotions flicked through her eyes in quick succession – surprise, awe, pleasure, which was quickly shadowed by a cool disinterest. Nate Phillips. So that was […]
“Tooth brush, under wears, sun-shades, towels, make-up kit all check” I made a mental note of the things I had to take home with me before biding Jolomi goodbye wearing my Louis Vuitton shades (famzing) getting the hell out of school. The journey to Ibadan seemed rather too fast as I slept through it […]
There was only one thing standing between Mr. Gbadegesin and the door: a table. It was one of those low-lying wooden coffee tables that had come from someone else’s house and now housed old newspapers in the sitting room. But, Mr. Gbadegesin was not interested in the news that afternoon. His plan was to escape […]
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5th, 2014. Ikoyi, Lagos. 2PM. ‘Bode, this is wrong.’ Dunni said, looking not at all pleased. ‘Why would you record it? For what purpose were you intending to use it for?’ Bode looked rather dis-interested in the conversation as he fiddled with his phone. ‘My break time actually ends by 1:45pm and I’m […]
The plane was deafening. He could hear loud voices, distressed complaints, of people griped strangely by impatience. His tired eyes searched around. An Indian girl was smiling vehemently at a Nigerian man in his forties, who was about to take the seat beside her. A large Chinese woman struggled in haste, approaching Michael, through one […]
I walk alone along in the dark night three streets away from home staring blindly at the starry sky trying to find several answers to the many questions from my daughter. Where is mummy? She has asked over a thousand times and the echoes of her single question had kept echoing in my head like […]
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” – G.K. Chesterton Nathan stared out the car window. He was sitting at the back seat of the jeep, content now to be left alone to his thoughts. The Mode Men magazine lay on his laps, open and […]
My phone began to burst with calls and romantic text messages from Elizabeth. Each time I saw those texts I would laugh bitterly before deleting them. As for the calls, I kept rejecting them. I was not a type of guy that would insult a girl on phone. On one occasion I didn’t have the […]
Rhoda was having a great week. Life was good without her parents staring at her, watching her every move. She knew her friends were probably not the best friends one could have but they had freedom, something she had always longed for. She had nagged and sulked until her parents had agreed to let her […]
The drops fell lazily on his body as he turned down the shower. He gazed directly at the drops, each splash trickling down his broad, hairy chest. Damn, he groused as he stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom; the soft hotel towel tied firmly around his slim waist. Even with a cold […]
Davydd opened his eyes and slowly the blurred images he saw came into focus. A pair of the most beautiful green eyes he had ever seen stared lovingly at him and her red lips curled upwards into a warm smile. “You are back.” Vannera said with a controlled excitement, though from her face, he could […]
“BUS 111!” cried the invigilator. Business Administration students scattered all over the ground came forward, some enthusiastically, some still trying to cram a few more lines, others looking nearly indifferent. “My guy, abeg I dey your side.” Ayo turned up his nose and without looking behind him to know who owned the voice, he replied, […]
She told me that her birthday was six days’ time. I expressed a surprise that the period coincided with the time we met. We couldn’t do without staring at each other (at least in ten seconds interval) when we began to do justice to our food. I wouldn’t have known how to use cutlery if […]