A wise man once told me that life is all about fighting successive and unending battles. And nothing else. That we plunge head-on into them, drawing courage from the hope of obtaining a glorious victory. Read More
May 172013
Horror and Supernatural
May 142013
Ebi stood at his door, with a faraway look in his eyes. He handled the door and a tingling sensation coursed through his lean veined hand. With a start, he realized a little electric charge Read More
May 112013
This is a little info on how we operate. Let me start this way; I’m not human, I’m a…demon and my name is Angatus. You can decipher from my name that I’m the carrier of Read More
Apr 292013
YEAR 1996 CE Udia was destined to give birth to the girl who would end the world. Her screams, intense and ear splitting as the shrill call of a banshee, reverberated through the corridors of Read More
Apr 242013
Early last month, my pastor saw a vision for me and said I should pray and fast. He said he saw the angel of death hovering around my work place like a hungry hulk for Read More
Mar 212013
I heard this story long ago, so I may not remember everything and I don’t know if it’s all true. But I’ll tell you all the same. It’s said that light years past, there was Read More
Mar 172013
Onyedum looked closely at the electrode. It was the right size, just what he wanted. Shrugging his shoulders, he inserted it into the groove of the welding handle. These boys. May God help them to Read More
Mar 142013
Emeka walked home from a hard day of work, with two things on his mind, Food and a warm bath to wash away the sweat and grime of the day’s work. He worked at a Read More
Mar 112013
The surest way to overcome your fears is to face them. How timely, Tonye thought, retrieving the dust-laden, dog-eared little pamphlet from a stack of moldy paper: Plus, the Magazine of Positive Thinking. He Read More
Mar 102013
Sleep completely eluded me on my first night in Aunty Patience’s house, not even the accumulated fatigue from the rather tortuous journey to Lagos could induce me to sleep. The children slept on a raffia Read More
Mar 082013
He shot up with a start, heaving and gasping for breath. He kept muttering Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! The realization that the thing may have traced and followed him to Siki’s place both pained and Read More
Feb 202013
My Father once told me a story about a herbalist that had a spare parts shop in the middle of the market square, shadowed underneath the big Iroko tree. In the crime ridden Nkwo market, Read More
Feb 092013
I’m sitting here watching him talk and wondering why. I briefly contemplate the calla lily stem tattooed on the inside of my wrist. The flower itself sits below the words “Diligo est nunquam reproba”, Latin for “Love Read More
Feb 042013
They creepiness started early August after the demise of my grandmother. It started with bizarre sounds from the basements ranging from footsteps in the backyard to the howling of dog in the garage. Some nights, Read More
Jan 142013
“This is the moment, tell her how you feel; proclaim it to her – build a seal ─ a shield.” The Revlin in my head shouted in a low voice. I knew it was the Read More
Jan 102013
“Compliment class,” muttered Alexander Douglass the class prefect as everybody stood and greeted in unison. “Good morning ma!” “Good morning my beautiful students, how’re y’all” she said in her everly soft-sweet girlish voice. “Fine thank Read More
Dec 252012
I hurried through the door, barely acknowledging greetings from my folks,and made for my room with one thing in mind-Him. I quickly got out of my work clothes and settled into a comfortable posture-flat on my Read More
Dec 182012
‘For the few years that I have spent alive, life has presented many things before me. Things I never bargained for or surprises as some may call it. Some were pleasant in many ways and Read More
Dec 082012
Tuesday, 2nd October On a hot and humid evening, Ajoke decided to go buy oranges at the junction to her house; it was just five houses away. She got there and saw that the orange Read More
Dec 032012
One It was a normal day, the day I died. In my eyes, there was nothing wrong with the gloom that enveloped the morning. After all it was a September morning and September in Lagos Read More