That morning, I woke up a dazed man. I was lying on the bed bare-chested inside my one room apartment thinking out loud. ‘You see, life have not treated me kindly’ My name is Read More
May 022013
short story
Jan 312013
Bzzzz…… Adamu instantly delivered a hot slap upon his own face. He woke up with a terrible start and looked around, like he didn’t know where he was or who had just slapped him. He Read More
Jan 252013
Like fire, she ignited and sparked my soul ablaze. She was fierce and full with hot chi which was of the color red. Even though she acted different, I could tell from her black and Read More
Dec 242012
NOBODY KNEW WHAT HE was feeling, sitting in that polished pew, listening to the choir. Nobody could glimpse into the sadness in his heart. For everybody in the candle-lit church, Somadina was so lucky. His Read More
Dec 202012
It is a story about love and marriage, and about how an impressionable woman becomes ‘born again’ in an unequal union. HER NAME WAS NNEOMA, Good Mother, but Obinze liked to call her Obim. Read More
Dec 202012
When something bigger than a frog enters a frogs mouth, what can one expect? This is what happened to Mrs. Umez, a great woman of God who caught her daughter in the act of Read More
Dec 202012
I do not like my Aunty Amaka very much, I never have and never will. She is fat but not my Daddy’s kind of good fat; she is the bad kind of fat that breaks Read More
Dec 052012
The Barrister just fell, crashing on the door’s burglary which left a v-cut on his fore-head! Froth coated with pink-dark grey blood gushing from both corners of his mouth while the four Photographers with Read More
Nov 112012
“Kill him if you must” cried the hungry voice from within “there is no other choice, take him from behind or they would Read More
Oct 072012
“Where were you last night?” I heard the crunch of broken pieces of glass beneath my feet as stepped through the front door. “With Kunle.” I replied with a frown. “Why didn’t you call?” My Read More
Aug 282012
I lean back in my seat as the plane taxis off the runway and sigh loudly – drawing stares from other passengers. The past two days have been hectic, packed full with dancing, drinking, and Read More
Nov 212011
Adunni my iPad just bought me an e-book, “The Granta Book of the African Short Story” published byGranta and edited by the Nigerian writer Helon Habila. The book’s “Introduction” written by Habila alone is worth the Read More
Oct 102011
This time he would obey mummy. He wanted to see that good smile that lit up her face whenever she was pleased with him. He liked that smile. It wasn’t like the one he had Read More
Aug 252011
The okada came to a stop just by the side of the road. Peter dismounted and paid the okada. The bike noisily clambered along the sand strip before it joined the main road. Peter dusted Read More
Mar 142011
Blackout! Just before the bullet found its mark, Remi had a flashback of the flash bang and Lade squeezing her eyes shut before squeezing the trigger. She hadn’t thought Lade would have the guts to Read More
Feb 242011
Kaizo slammed a chunk of balled fist on the counter raising a thin cloud of dust in the process startling the elderly Officer Okoro who passed out some odorless gas from his anal port. The younger Officer, Osamu sneezed and blinked, looking up at the six foot plus figure of Kaizo.
Both officers just blinked and looked at the heaving hulk of a figure before them. Officer Okoro decided he was getting too old for these energetic youth of today. On the radio, the Jamaican reggae artiste, Culture, sang,
“..and if you fight against the youth man of today, blood a go run…”