I said those words again two mornings later—to another woman. Her visit early in the morning as I left my squat bungalow was unexpected. She didn’t seem to be a student. Her tap on my Read More
May 202013
Novel Excerpts
May 172013
Nothing I couldn’t handle! That was my huge mistake. If I’d known what events would unfold after that afternoon, I’d never have uttered those fateful words. In doing that, I broke Murphy’s Law and dared Read More
May 142013
Jemima chose the place and seats, placed our orders, paid for the food—with my money, of course—and returned bearing a tray of loot. Typical fare: rice and drumsticks. They only varied in colouring and garnishing. Read More
May 022013
Everything occurred within one flashing second of eternity. In that frozen sequence of time, the ground in the yard behind Mardala was bursting open as a mortar bomb, whistling from a mile and half away 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 252013
Up to the waist, she was one word—stunning. Perfectly manicured toes varnished in blood-red nail polish lay among coloured straps of leather that approximated as shoes. Her ankles rode into long, slender ebony legs that Read More
Apr 222013
The baby wails on. D’Onah reaches first for the girl. He lifts her limp hand, raises a bunch of blood-soaked hair from her bloody face. He retches heavily, with a sinking feeling of despair. He Read More
Apr 192013
She recognizes the surrounding. Only a couple of times had she been here with Styne. Styne…? She feels like she’s drowning as the cold water rushes over her, plastering the unflatteringly shapeless hospital robe to Read More
Apr 162013
Feeling the stir, D’Onah looks down at the sleeping figure in the bed. He smiles his welcome-back-to-earth smile. Nari slowly opens her eyes. It has been thirty-seven hours since the surgeons wheeled her out of Read More
Apr 112013
The accolade usually given to male child in Obodo-Akiri overwhelmed Nwatiti with jealousy and she swore to stand out come what may in any competition between her and any boy of her age group. Read More
Apr 052013
The headaches refused to relieve me, though my body slowly came to life. The feeling I felt had a close resemblance to the one I had the day I fell from the veranda of my Read More
Apr 032013
My rest of the day was rather uneventful; or rather I wasn’t interested in it. The night slowly metamorphosed into day like a tortoise racing a 100m race. The following day came. I didn’t go Read More
Apr 022013
He comes uninvited like the wind, blood and nature feels its countenance, no one placates its wrath when rekindled, even the most formidable defense crumbles at his feet, haughtiness is one of its attribute. Oh! Read More
Apr 012013
CRUSH: A BURNING DESIRE TO BE WITH SOMEONE YOU FIND ATTRACTIVE AND EXTREMELY SPECIAL… My story is a very long but short one. It has many beginnings, but let me start by telling you this; Read More
Mar 272013
(Excerpt from L.I.F.E) Magnus has never failed an exam in his life – at least not since he realized the bliss of sneaking into exam halls with bits of paper covered with untidy scribbles, and Read More
Mar 172013
I cannot remember her name any longer but I remember her face. She was tall and slim and unarguably one of the prettiest girls in my class. I had a crush on her and I Read More
Mar 122013
DYING FOR JUSTICE. She was almost asleep when a tap woke her. Her husband, Mr Richard, was still not satisfied with the way their discussion had ended moments ago. “What is the problem again?” She Read More
Feb 212013
He did not know how he got there; one minute he and his brothers were playing in the mad scientist’s lab, the next, he was tumbling through a tunnel of white pulsating light speckled with Read More
Feb 212013
Uncanny discovers crime pays – with punishment It was not yet 9pm but Uncanny was already through a bottle of Henessey, one J&W and a Five Alive tetra pack. He crushed his fourth stub of Read More
Feb 122013
BAYO STOOD ALONE in the desolate room; it had a sense of eeriness around it that seemed spooky and out of place. Sunlight filtered in through the broken louvers and pooled lazily on the uneven Read More