women
The lights came on when all five girls were sitting on the living room floor playing cards. They were all in their underwear and some were fresh from the bath so they…
Ada receives an unexpected visitor along with unexpected news. Apparently, her longtime friend is going to be a mother against her plans. Ada is more concerned about the fact that she calls her unwanted pregnancy a gift.
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…
“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…
“Your father wants you to take off your uniform, he says you’re following me to the market today”. My mother told me as I knelt with my hands on the buckle of…
“Hello, my name is Daisy Adamu, an honor student from the department of Linguistics. I have a question to ask you this morning. What’s the point in living anyway? There’s nothing as…
The world is a place where it seems like many people are either out there to hurt us or don’t care if they hurt us, whether intentionally or accidentally. The feeling of…
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…
The car idles noiselessly on the sand, as a ladybug crawls lazily under the bonnet. The young couple kiss languidly against their warm skin, on the bonnet of the car. They stay…
I never understood the obsession girls had with adding several coloured chemical substances of unknown sources to their faces and deriving a sick sense of beauty and elegance from it. Call me…