Young Adult Stories
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…
“Stop! Don’t do this I’m begging you. Please, please! Noooooo!” I cried all to no avail, he was oblivious to my wails. Hot liquid continued to stream down from my eyes, down…
The charcoaled walls and the stench of sweaty bodies from the other cells sent their greetings to me in my cell where I sat with my hands crossed on my knees, my…
I saw her that day before she did me. She was dressed in rags, hair the color of dirt. I could smell the ooze from her pits even though we weren’t in…
There is an overwhelming feeling that comes with just wanting to be part of something. Sometimes, you cannot explain it. Not even to the person closest to you, who is supposed to…
You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha. I was my father’s favorite child growing up. I don’t know why he enjoyed…
The news reached our ears in the middle of summer. Dorothy Wogu killed herself during the midterm holiday. It was only a few weeks before our final exams in high school. The…
On the day I learned about it, I knew my life was about to change forever and there was no turning back. The unforeseeable dark future that stood before me was indeed…
Mommy says, “When I was a girl. People didn’t say bad things about the dead. They’d go like, ‘No oh! That person don die. Abeg, make we no talk about am.’ So…
The last time she saw her mother, she had had her head buried between her laps, with her right hand sticking out of the space between her right leg and thigh. Clutched…