EPISODE FIVE When I finally managed to draw open the door, I found a much sterner looking Detective Davies right at the door, tapping the pink-cased phone in his hand like it was a musical instrument. The rhythmic sounds that followed the taps were slow, mournful ones and they sent my already racing heartbeat into […]
Banji rose to his feet, seemingly calm. Meanwhile, his eyes were already red like a glowing ember. He pocketed his hands, then glared at them one after the other. They were standing about a feet away, glaring back at him, arms crossed. The boy who grabbed the envelope had already passed it to Olumide. Apart […]
The following day, Nene woke up still full of hope. The day was pregnant with the promise of great things, and she basked in it. She savored that warm, delightful feeling, which envelopes a person rising from sweet sleep, that sweet nothingness that entices the waker to slip back under the covers and continue dreaming. […]
“You need to end that with ‘Yours sincerely’ son” Theo said to Simon. They had just finished writing a letter addressed to his family in London. “Okay! I’m done Sir” Simon said as he folded the piece of paper neatly, enclosed it in an envelope,and sealed it with a red stamp.”Is there anything else you […]
I wasn’t sure if Sanam would forgive me, but I thought I should try harder by patronising her friend’s saloon. The saloon was definitely not the type I visited with all the middle class clients, I felt terrible there, the things I was doing for the sake of Asad, putting my sanity on the line. […]
My late husband wrote his son as the heir to all his properties but everything should be under my control until he reached the age of twenty-one. I was the happiest woman in the world even though his younger brother had been coming arguing that I killed his brother because I wanted to inherit everything. […]
“Move…move…move we don’t have much time”. The noise of heavy boots filled the air as troopers loaded the Black Maria. ‘Click-clack’; everyone adjusted their rifle as they got into the Black Maria. Every part of Camp 14 seemed to be filled with little green men and orders rendered in the air. Soon enough, the engines […]
LAMENTATIONS OF AN UGLY GIRL (XVIII) Why do you people (I mean unmarked people) generally assume that we Lined people are illiterates, I mean why? *would get to this later* “Moji what’s good nah? How is my baby kicking in there?” he said as we approached the last cubicle in the room. “Which baby did […]
Meanwhile, somewhere in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, Julia and her friends sat in front of the office of the principal of Criterion High School awaiting the man’s arrival. Julia looked at her friends and smiled. They had called her a disillusioned pretty-face when she told them that they would be doing their final […]
“Na so e dey start,” she muttered to herself. “From ‘Hello’ to ‘I no do again.’ That’s how the story ends.” She promptly emptied the dustbin and was about to enter the house when she heard a man’s voice yelling “Hello.” It was the same guy. He had decided to vocalize his greeting this time, […]
The vibration of my phone woke me up, it was 4 am in the morning Asad was still sleeping, he looked so innocent and I thought if I stabbed him now, it would be an easy escape for him and I would end up in jail for murder, but it has to be precise, he […]
“C’mon young chap! Let the cat out of the bag” Matti added in a feigned british accent. “All he does is imitate the Reverend’s intonation and outer appearance. It would do us more good if he paid this attention to his sermon translations and stopped acting like a paragon” John thought to himself. “Well,my dear […]
“I’m coming home for lunch today my love.” My husband said the morning of the next day as he and Odin were leaving for school and office respectively. “Thanks honey, I love you.” “I love you too, my love.” “Oh, my baby, wait.” I rushed bringing his food flask. “Daddy, I love my mummy though […]
“Oshodi! Oshodi!!Oshodi!! , Wole pelu 150 change e o” The conductor screamed at the top of his voice, it was hard not to hear him with his eerily high pitched voice like that of a drone. The bus was half full and I plugged my brand new Samsung galaxy ear buds into my ear […]
LAMENTATIONS OF AN UGLY GIRL (XVII) “Vivian, thank God you came o, see I was just about calling someone to tell me what to do this thing” Viv’s brother said , pointing some vegetables. Viv introduced him to me as Elvis before we went to fix the vegetables. For a bachelor, his pad was quite […]