Tag: Short story
The encounter by Austin Obi
It was the long holiday break and Buchi came back home from school because he didn’t have any allowance to stay in his lodge during the holidays. He was mostly helping at Mama’s shop and also doing his final year project. On a cold Friday morning after doing his choreshe decided to log into the […]
If you ask tolani by Joy Humphrey
Tolani was starving. At least, that was what it felt like being deprived of Tundeโs love. For as long as she could remember, he was all she knew. He was her friend, her lover, her husband- he was her everything. She was so intertwined and dependent on him that she knew nothing else, she refused […]
Do you see me? by Oluwatumininu
Do you see me? Do you think I am human, a child worthy of love? Do you not see that I want to go outside and play with children my age? Why then do you tell me to shut up and stay indoors? Do you not see that I can not be kept in a […]
Death by juju by Kandie Scribbles
This disease is hereditary, I remember the doctor telling us about it. He told my mom he wanted to speak to her children. We went over to my mum’s place against my father’s wish, he didn’t openly stop us but we could see it on his face. The slight frown around his lips, the croaking […]
Sponge by Adigun Peters
I grew up in a tenement house popularly known as “Face-me-I-face-you” in the far end of Ajegunle. Ajegunle is the abandoned Lagos. A place where a fight is like a football game where scores are counted for the number of people dead, and each side trying to make the scores even. It is a place […]
The Little Bird by Nwadinma Chizalum
T.W(selfharm,violence) ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ of belt buckle meeting flesh rang in her ears so loudly that she didn’t have time to fully register the pain, coming from her back, travelling down her arms and fingertips, up to her head and back to the tip of her toes. The buckle of the belt met her skin […]
Maroon by Clara jack
โLet her live. Take me Reaper . Let her liveโ Maroon, the poet who wrote one good poem and nine hundred and ninety nine bad poems in a collection she titled Crumbles of an eon. No one could understand why she did that nor why they kept buying the collection. That one good poem was […]
Chicken by Emmaline Elvis
This isnโt a story about love or heartbreak or even trust. No. This is a story about hate. Will it be too much for you handle? I donโt know. It isnโt for me so Iโm feeling the need to tell you. Also I donโt know how to keep my mouth shut. Youโre probably wondering who […]
Afanikรตn : Wahala by Angel James
I was nodding my head to Alpha Ojiniโs vigilante bop. It was a coping mechanism, a push tobrace myself while I stood on the long and scattered queue that was nowhere close to moving. It was a distraction from the men that deemed it fit to toast me at a crucial time like this. I […]
How do I keep this memory at bay? by Deborah Koche
I have a thing. Sometimes I cannot remember what happened 10 minutes ago. My train of thought diminishes until itโs nothing and so I try to start from my earliest memory. The one I dubbed โThe Indelible.โ The flashes usually start from his sickening hands on me, but what happened after that? Another flash comes […]