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 […]
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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 […]
Dark Season
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 […]
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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 […]
INHIBITIONS
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 […]
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I CRY
Your words affect me more than the wrong decision I took.Your scorn makes me lose heart.And when you make those dangerous promises, you take me a step closer to the grave of heartbrokenness. I don’t need you, my loved one, to pat me in the […]
Naked
In the times when youths seem to have lost love in their hearts, when Lust and Infatuation have taken over the wheels. Cheating becoming the ever rising tide, it is heart warming to see: Love and Trust, in honest, pure forms. The post also a […]
The God In Man
By Onyedikachi Ottih A peaceful journeyEnds in criesAnd painsAnd screams.Maybe in the next world,Humans would be ants,And ants, humans. ANTS Mother Ant stops to taste the substance in front of her. She touches it with her antennae and gets a taste. “Bread,” she shrills, very […]
First, Create Your Own Miracle.
If you have read Nlebedim, Nzube Harry’s Miracles are Subtle, then you would understand the first reason for this post. The second reason is a friend’s comment about us creating our miracles. Motivational, religious and Educational teachers have stressed this issue enough in years. However, […]