Young Adult Stories
Sharon gazed out of the window, her thoughts drifting to Tobe, the man she had loved for as long as she could remember. As she watched the sunlight filter through the leaves…
Tanka’s heart was breaking into pieces and those pieces into smaller ones and even those were breaking smaller. Soon there would be nothing left in the left side of his chest but…
The cold night breeze caressed her skin like an invisible embrace. It felt like a reassurance; that all would be well after her next step. A teardrop dared try to betray her…
Dara had never wished for superpowers before, not even as a child. She never dreamed of flying or shooting laser beams from her eyes, she was never interested in magic or fairy…
You close your eyes and hiss like the biggest snake in the city as the intense shouts of ‘die by fire’ reverberates and shake the very core of the old building. The…
He handed me the cup of hot choco I had been staring at wantonly and held my small, cold shivering hands in his big warm hands. “You see, life is just like…
The first time Uncle Donald had come to visit us, he’d seemed like the angel that God decided to leave back on earth. He was perfect, had the dentition of a man…
“I was five years old when my landlady’s house help deflowered me in the backyard of our building. I remember the day like it only happened a minute ago. I was playing a game of hide-and-seek with my friends and we were running around wildly, looking for where to hide our little buttocks…”
The judge’s voice continued to drone away impassionately as he laid out the fate of my future in front of a small congregation in the court. The room felt more like a…
‘Jadesola, I am not as invested in this relationship as I used to be. I hate that I am the one that is burdened with stating the obvious, but you and I…