Young Adult Stories
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…
When I woke up this morning, the only productive thing I hoped to complete before the end of the day was brushing my teeth, but then, my aunty called and sent me…
“Hi.” “Hello.” “Do you have a minute?” “For?” “Uhh…now that you ask…” “Yeah. I thought as much.” “Yeah…” “I do have a minute though, but I need to know why you need…
“For as long as I can remember, I have not been living. I fear that I have only been existing. Inside of me, something is missing; something really big and really important…
“Tell me, what use is the government if they cannot even give us good roads?” The woman said as she crossed the road with her daughter, trying her best to jump over…
Her parents were already frustrated with her situation, but in fairness to her, she was not trying any less than her best. When the temptation came to be angry at how her…
A little boy of seven years was sitting in front of the television. His aunt, Amaka, was perched on his lap. At that time, she was a twenty-two years old undergraduate studying…