short stories
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.…
If someone had told me that I, Zara Olaosebikan, an ordinary girl from Surulere, would one day become the secret wife of Lagos’ most eligible billionaire, I would have laughed in their…
Nostalgia, I play with that word in my head. These days I wonder so much in my mind that I find it unnecessary to leave my apartment. Preferring to stay indoors mulling…
“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…
“Run, run, keep running, don’t you dare stop, we’re almost there, just a bit more.” She kept gulping in each breath as though they were the last she would take. She had…
23-03-2023 I want to see life through your eyes. Right now, the world looks dark and colourless; I feel like I’m staring into an abyss. But… somehow, you always manage to see…
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…