short interesting stories
“Don’t go out in the rain.” Those were her grandmother’s last words. Insignificant as they might seem to an outsider, they were very significant to Bisi. They meant: don’t run into the…
She softly calls out to me, begging me to be touched. I’m in the middle of a prayer session with my mom so I tell her, “Sshh… Not now. At least wait…
The first time I broke a plate, I broke a full cooler of them. The crashing sound of their fall made my head ring like a cymbal, or an old alarm clock…
“Mommy, what’s all this now? Why are you harassing me at my workplace? What do you mean by I don’t have respect? You’re the one disrespecting me by discussing an arranged marriage…
Riley has been a talented bass guitarist ever since she first laid her hands on a bass guitar by accident at the age of eight. It all happened during a family vacation.…
“Bimpe! Tope! Funke!” my aunt’s voice pierced through the nightmarish haze in my mind. For the first time in three days, I was grateful to her for screaming this early in the…
In this life, you always have to be careful. Maybe too careful. Anna sparkle thought to herself as she stepped out of the big building dragging a huge carton that contained her…
Memories. They are all we can ever hold on to. They are the presents given to us by time wrapped in years and years of quiet forgetfulness or slow remembrance. I do…
Jide walked down the street to the Cafe for some coffee. Another man would perhaps have gone for a drink and a long smoke but Jide didn’t drink and neither did he…
The sky had taken on an unusual color, almost as dark as Ivie’s mood. The market women looked up, fearing the imminent downpour, and tried to shuffle between getting their wares to…