SAN: IS FASHOLA PART OF THEM?
The stench deep as the body of the dead peeping through a room abandoned for days. My stomach sensed an unwanted connection from the two openings sitting above my mouth...
…AND ỌNỤ HATED LOVE (part 1) by Chijioke Ngobili
Blood dripped. Body jerked repeatedly. Temperature high. “Nurse, Nurse! Call the doctor, call the doctor!” Voices yelled. Everyone was in panic, busy and at alert. “Hi? I’m Dr. Ọnụ. How...
AM I A WITCH? (part 2)
They take me to the front of the house where everybody is waiting. They tie me to a big stick. They start praying. Everybody says amen. The prayer and the...
WILL THE REAL GENTLEMEN, PLEASE STAND-UP?
The strong, sweet smell of well brewed coffee and muffins in a chilly atmosphere is one of the first things you encounter when stepping out of London's Heathrow airport on...
STAYING FOR HER
Tugo had been in the village for two days. That was the first time he had seen as many people gathered in one place- the market day. He still couldn't...
AVENGERS: AN EYE FOR AN EYE
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...
MAZE
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....
IN BED WITH LADY ‘X’
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...
WHY DO YOU CHOOSE TO STAY
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...
WHY OLAMI-UCHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN ABUJA
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...