Young Adult Stories
“Hi!” I called out to her and watched her bat her eyes in rebellion like she could not wait to get rid of her work clothes and perfunctory smile. “My name is…
Daniel was hiding in the kitchen. He felt like a little child running away from a teacher, his cane and a punishment agenda. But this time it wasn’t physical pain he was…
“The last time I saw my mother, I was coming home from school and I tripped on my loose shoelaces. She was already at the door waiting for me with an envelope…
It was 7:54 when I finally opened my eyes. I had been asleep for over fifteen hours, and I realized that I was in big trouble for many reasons. I turned to…
In my part of the world, only a few things mattered. Family was first, the stomach was second, and Papa’s will was the third. Every year in our small town was always…
The tears streaming down my face mixed with the tension I was experiencing in an effort to express the confusion I was feeling inside. I was a young adult of twenty four…
As a broken trophy, she was fleeing her home. The blood dripping from her left temple served as a continuous reminder of the pain that she was feeling. It had been a…
The adults ogled me over like I was a strange commodity that had appeared in the market for the first time. No, I was not a strange thing that had fallen from heaven.…
Disclaimer: Most of the dialogues are written in Nigerian pidgin. I looked around, the pungent smell of sweaty armpits mixed with excessively sprayed perfume choked my lungs, causing my nostrils to twitch…
Lola could hear her father’s voice so clearly. It was like he was sitting right next to her in the backseat of the uber, rather than in her head. “Nobody likes to…