short stories
“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…
“We can’t get to the bottom of this issue until you tell us the whole story,” the policeman said. I looked from Ephraim to my mother, he lowered his eyes but my…
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…
The moon danced along with our sweaty bodies as we shouted the words “swala la la”. Four different bodies, different shades of black appearing as one, swaying side to side over steaming…
He wept like a fool at her grave. Love had done him dirty again, as always. As always, he had loved and he had lost. “I guess love really isn’t for some…