BLACK AND WHITE RAINBOW (Episode 1)
My host’s thick voice was smooth in my ears when he spoke through the phone to me 'My other wife will pick you up at the airport.' I swallowed...
MY SWEET LITTLE COURAGE
Nche did not bother bantering with the pupils lining his path. The gutter surrounding Santa Maria Church was already littered by pupils with their lunch packs, eating and japing. The...
MY MOTHERS’ MADNESS
They say every human being has 5 minutes of madness. Whoever made this statement simply does not know my mother or he wouldn’t have made this generalized statement. You know...
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....