I walked down to the river bank, darting my eyes around for any sign of human or animal presence. It was dusk. The breeze blew past my face into the trees, and the leaves rattled.I turned left and right again. I was almost at the […]
…of Lizards
Horror Movies…
…made less scary. A safe, tested and trusted way to watch horror movies at any time. The thing about horror movies is that they try so hard to creep us out. Me, I know their tactics.The night I watched The Conjuring, it was some minutes […]
I Was A Detective
Yeah, I was! So, don’t smirk😖 See ehn…the government should come to me for advice. I need to be the one training their supposed detectives. I’m not trying to make mouth, mba. When I did my first detective job, I was still in secondary school. […]
The last we saw of her
We used to run a restaurant where you can get the neatest homemade food around the neighborhood. The cooking process starts the day before and then very early in the morning around 3am so that we can be done with all the foods by 6am. […]
A First Experience
The first time I left home was when I was admitted into a university. I never sabi anything, then. One of the places that spoke loud in the mouth of people was Douglas. After lectures as I went home, it seemed everybody was going to […]
Untitled Sad Tale
If you have ever been in those very rowdy markets in some Eastern parts of Nigeria then you’d know exactly what I’m talking about. I don’t mean the Ariaria Int.market’s kind of busyness, I mean the Ahia Ohuru-on-a-Monday kind of busyness. Ladies who buy and […]
The Tale of A Coward
A Coward Dies… On a street is my mother’s fufu shop. This won’t be the first time you’ve heard of my mother’s fufu shop. No, it’s not, but I’ve not described our shop to you yet. During closure of my mother’s fufu shop, we close […]
Kaduza
Something told me… I walked into the darkness flashing my torch light around. I needed to carry in the big kettle into the compound. I heard the hiss as I came out from the shade in the backyard. I flashed my torch wildly around but […]
I legit hate my sister now
Don’t judge me; you don’t know the trauma I’m going through. Don’t advise me; I don’t have need for it. The only solution to my problem is that schools reopen and she leaves the house for me. When I was in school I didn’t bother […]
Nightmarishly What Ifs.
If you heard gunshots at midnight… I wear my sweater on top my long sleeve, pink top. I pick the black trouser I stole from my dad. I search out for my flowery, baby pink, thick socks. Then I wear my pink headwarmer. It is […]
The Future
By Ottih Onyedikachi Are the gods to be blamed? What would you have done differently? May, 2020 Stella thrashed her legs about on the bed. A sad feeling of doom enveloped her. She lay still trying to recall her dream. A pair of big arms […]