Month: <span>September 2017</span>

BOOK REVIEWS

‘AT WAR WITH LOVE’ BREAK’S CULTURAL BOUNDARIES CONCERNING WOMEN WITHOUT SHAME

Oyindamola ShoolaSeptember 4, 2017August 3, 2020

TITLE: At War With Love GENRE: Poetry AUTHOR: Christtie Jay PUBLISHER: Createspace YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2017 NUMBER OF PAGES: 204 ISBN: 978-1973791195 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola I admire how many young...

POETRY

DISTORTION by Gbalajobi Adejuwon

Gbalajobi AdejuwonSeptember 4, 2017September 9, 2017

What! The divergence of thoughts and speech The immodesty of promiscuous words, And then our hearts an helpless Pilate, Releasing Barnabas, at the expense of the Just. Man’s unholy devotion,...

SHORT STORIES

AVENGERS: AN EYE FOR AN EYE

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonSeptember 3, 2017September 3, 2017

I look at the man screaming at my feet, my prisoner, grinning as he groans. You might wonder why he groans. He is simply in pain. I have just chopped...

POETRY

MY STRENGTH IS IN YOU by Adedokun Seyi

Adedokun SeyiSeptember 3, 2017

I am my own chariot and warrior Winning battles without collecting enemies' lots It is queasy If my quiver is full of breathless warriors What sound of gong is sweet...

POETRY

TELL THEM by Omotayo Awoyemi

Omotayo AwoyemiSeptember 3, 2017

Tell them we can see them; The house of bones they live in, The sweats that flush their gutters, The sweats of our fathers and mothers, and The blood of...

SHORT STORIES

MAZE

Jide BadmusSeptember 3, 2017

I am a serial killer. I am not sick. I wasn’t abused. I flung the newspaper aiming for the waste paper basket at the corner of the room but missed....

SHORT STORIES

IN BED WITH LADY ‘X’

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonSeptember 3, 2017September 3, 2017

Light came on and Maxwell opened his eyes immediately. “NEPA! The idiots have woken up,” he thought. He was lying on his side, near the edge of his oddly large...

SHORT STORIES

WHY DO YOU CHOOSE TO STAY

Adedayo VictorSeptember 2, 2017September 3, 2017

Why do you choose to stay? Why? Tell me. Are you scared of what people will say? That you jump from one husband to another – that you have no...

SHORT STORIES

WHY OLAMI-UCHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN ABUJA

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonSeptember 2, 2017September 3, 2017

When Olami-Uche left his home on that fateful Thursday morning, his wallet had exactly one thousand, seven hundred and twenty naira in it. It was everything he had in the...

POETRY

MY DIRTY DAY DREAMS by Ademigbuji Aishat

Ademigbuji aishatSeptember 2, 2017

Hello future husband. I saw you in my dreams to day. Not night dreams though. In my dreams, you are an artist. A are painter/ photographer. We somewhere and we...

Month: September 2017

‘AT WAR WITH LOVE’ BREAK’S CULTURAL BOUNDARIES CONCERNING WOMEN WITHOUT SHAME

DISTORTION by Gbalajobi Adejuwon

AVENGERS: AN EYE FOR AN EYE

MY STRENGTH IS IN YOU by Adedokun Seyi

TELL THEM by Omotayo Awoyemi

MAZE

IN BED WITH LADY ‘X’

WHY DO YOU CHOOSE TO STAY

WHY OLAMI-UCHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN ABUJA

MY DIRTY DAY DREAMS by Ademigbuji Aishat

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