Runner: The Siege The town of Limala laid sleeplessly in the dark like a shadow in the night musing and whispering away, like endangered an specie, smelling of fear and anxiety, swelling with people coming in, people other than her inhabitants, coming in without going, running away, away to life, life seeking life, away from … Continue reading Runner( Part Three): The Seige
R unner(Part Two): The Market Run Earlier, mama boarded the first commuter bus. It slowed down, belched to a stop on the strength of the applied break. The whole mass jerked forward and creaked on its four legs like a tired beast of burden. “Ina kwanan ku duka.” She greeted and squeezed herself into … Continue reading Runner (Part Two): The Market Run
“You’re crazy!” It comes out in an angry whisper. “Mira.” The warning tone in his voice gets my back up. “If you think I’m going to let you put your hands on me, especially with my parents around the corner, you’ve really lost it.” My heart is beating furiously, I’m turned on and I’m trying … Continue reading My True Love (10)
When daddy brought Aunty Nneka into the house as our house-maid, I felt sad because my friends in school had always told me that house maids were witches, and family killjoys. I cried so much begging daddy to send Aunty Nneka away, but daddy would not listen. “Why can’t you trust me this once? She … Continue reading An Odd World
Jennifer muffled her son under a blanket; staring at the clock to realize it was ten o’clock in the night, and her husband was nowhere to be found. This was no different from the previous nights. She was sure he was getting his fill at the bar. She turned to her child, who was now … Continue reading Broken ties
“Let’s make love!” She announced to my happy hearing. I wasted no time in saying yes. We didn’t bother to continue deceiving ourselves with preambles. As young adults we both knew what we wanted, and how to get it wasn’t going to be a problem anymore. We agreed to meet up at her father’s garage … Continue reading Let us have sex
Tiwa came down from the taxi in front of the tall office building and smoothened her smart, ash coloured skirt suit. This is it, she thought as she walked through the main entrance of the building and took the lift up to the fifth floor of the high rise. This was the moment she had … Continue reading Finding Tiwa (1)
Sadness envelopes me. My heart feels like a jagged crack has been rent through it, and then cement has been used to block the gaping crevice. I stare up at the familiar white ceilings, the sterile walls around me seem to mock me. Sleep offers me no solace. Her voice haunts me in my slumber. … Continue reading Sade
He visited again, the same way he did each time he visited. A sudden draft of human presence thrust at me, kept me at a line between sleep and wakefulness. I felt hands groped over me, craftly cupping the roundness on my chest. He had the tips inbetween his fingers and mass sensational movement smoothened … Continue reading Sex Hunter part two
The private jet was already at cruising altitude as the hostess wheeled the cart back into the galley. She had just served tea to the only two passengers on the plane, who had thanked her, checked her out surreptitiously and then returned to their conversation. The two gentlemen were dressed formally in business suits … Continue reading “…Or Not to Be (The Wolfman’s Struggle)” by Harrison Ambler (from The Unagi Creative)
Price of promise Episode 4 Clem couldn’t quite understand why the abductor’s asked for a little ransom. They knew he would give any amount but instead they asked for 50 thousand. It didn’t feel right. Are they having problems with Sade? Is this some sort of message? Yelwa wants something, what could it be? She … Continue reading Price Of Price 4
“Oloshi! Oloriburuku! Thunder fire you!” yelled the motorcyclist who had almost hit Emeka who had been lost in thought as he trudged home that evening. He turned to the motorcyclist who was still raining curses on him, an apologetic look on his face as he watched him speed away. “It could have been better if … Continue reading The Ninth Cockroach
Like men watch movies with their television set, so are they watched on another television. Obviously, the television that watch men is one that has no fictitiousness within. It is rather one of spiritual-reality; in the sense that it exist, but is not visible to mortality. But who could be the watcher of this television? … Continue reading Life Is A Movie – One That Will End Before The Ending
That child without a name behind his name, you shouldn’t have had him. I say to myself. You should have allowed him have a name, every child deserves that, deserves to know whom he or she belongs to. I tell myself for the hundredth time today that it’s not my fault. I remind myself of … Continue reading Skin Like Black Onyx
JOURNEY TO FULFILLMENT (1) I kept walking and walking but it seems I had just begun. I was like “would there ever be an end to this struggle?” I looked left and right to get help from somebody but I found nobody; I was all alone. All around me was darkness so thick that it … Continue reading Journey To Fulfilment (1)