By Ottih Onyedikachi In the room, the two lovers lay down facing off each other. The girl, Iruoma is angry. Her heart is beating wildly and she can feel the stillness in the air. The trees are not blowing. She cannot hear their whistling. It […]
In this brilliant fiction, Iruoma discovers the inevitability of embracing her divine responsibility. The tree stands tall, taller than the other trees and the lone pine in the field. It is a dead whistling pine, but one that has refused to dry up or fall. […]
Episode two…grand finale. In truth we all make mistakes. We sometimes make one mistake over and over again. But we are human beings; as such, we cannot tell whether it is our karmic debts, or we simply do not learn from previous mistakes. But whatever […]
Episode One (1) By Onyedikachi Ottih “Pain makes you remember Pain. When you go through any pain, you only remember the last.”_Onyedikachi Ottih. It wasn’t the first time, but she was going to make sure it was the last. Ozoemena Paul stepped out from the […]
By Onyedikachi Ottih The phone rang. She placed it to her ear awaiting the receiver’s response. There was a nagging sadness in her heart. There was no response. She dialed again, and as she put it back to her ear, the receiver picked. A male […]
By Ottih Onyedikachi The first time you take a life, there is panic in your heart. For some time you are oblivious of the world around you. You stare in horror at the face of the dead human who seconds ago had been bustling with […]
By Ottih Onyedikachi First Published in ‘Be My Guest Writers’ Series’ now ‘The Shallow Tales Review’ #Issue 15 Father Gruff has been captured by a group of humans. In the brave quest of the goats to bring him home, Christmas would never be the same […]
Isn’t it ironic? How we think our partners can’t stay without us, yet when shit goes down, we’re the ones who suffer more? And we can’t hold our chest from exploding? And like the father in Dark Seasons, we get blinded by pain and rage […]
By Onyedikachi Ottih First Published in Be My Guest writers’ series, now The Shallow Tales Review. She clears her throat and starts… “We can’t feel some certain things in Nigeria. Maybe we can feel, but we are not expected to, and so we can’t express […]
