He didn’t go back to his aunt’s place until a few days after his finals. He told himself he was just stopping by to tell his mom he was going spend the holidays with one [...]
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Feb 082012
Feb 072012
Loud shrieks of children playing around Adepegba in her expansive compound filled the atmosphere. The over a dozen children playing in the compound seem to be having a swell time as they ran from one [...]
Feb 072012
Download the original attachment Five years together and there’s not much to show for it, except her promotion at the hospital, which is basically what she cares about most. I try to be very supportive [...]
Feb 062012
The pastor apparently surprised by my attack yelled incoherently. Rocking on his heels, his probing fingers stilled, he glared at me. Pushing away from him, I dragged down my skirt that had ridden up during [...]
Feb 062012
He hurried home when he heard his mom had been declared a witch and thrown out of the family house. It was the last thing he wanted to deal with now. His finals were in [...]
Feb 042012
I felt a slight pain pierce through my lower chest region as I struggled to keep pace with Taiwo, Mumuni and Shola my girlfriend. Suddenly I became dizzy and my strength began to fail me [...]
Feb 032012
DYING DEAD He staggers. He squints through the pouring rain trying to see ahead. In the distance he can hear the loud rumbling of several generators, but his part of the street is [...]
Feb 032012
Oshodi! Oshodi! The bus conductor shouted on top of his voice to attract passers-by. Some persons dressed in office-like attire hurriedly mount the “Danfo” bus with the hope to get to work as early as [...]
Michael got up as early as 4am, switched on the light and sat up staring at the tattoo on Okafor’s back. Okafor’s snore beside him was quiet. As gentle as his looks. Michael’s eyes glided [...]
Feb 022012
He was sleeping with this lady at the hospital, a nurse. I’m a doctor at the same hospital, so Betty told me everything. Betty is one of the cleaners at the hospital. He came to [...]
Erin sat by her window, wondering if she’d die of hunger or of boredom. It wasn’t that she didn’t have the money for food. She just didn’t want to go to the cafeteria alone. She [...]
Feb 012012
Few things had ever caused more excitement in Mbutu community than that of pleasant, good-natured Kenechukwu who abandoned his woman during the throes of childbirth and vanished without a trace. The incident had always [...]
Feb 012012
It was a Sunday evening, we were returning from a camping trip in the family’s mini bus. The sweet sound of Jazz music filled the air. The windows were wound down as the relaxing air [...]
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