Category: Stories

Have you ever surprised yourself by doing something you thought you’d never do? Tayo was heading back from work on Christmas eve when fatigue crawled down his spine. Who goes to work a day before ...

I risked my life again, dumped my little nodes of naiveness on the laps of a stranger, forgetting again the kind of world we live in- evil. Omor and Faith met in BIO 311 class, ...

They say bad friends are the harbingers of death. Yet cruelty wasn’t written all over Seyi’s face the first day we met. She glowed in her velvet green dress as she walked like her feet ...

‘Week 2- The Abuja Weekend’ It’s Sunday morning and Ronke’s head feels like it’s been stuffed with paper, not the beautiful coloured ones, rather the typical white A4 paper. She staggered as she got up ...

I live in a city where bones are washed with cyanide, heads are maimed on a daily to be placed in a calabash; heads of goats and hens, garnished with palm oil, kolanuts and moistened ...

This is how to enjoy being by yourself.  You are the focus, you are the center and here we are, getting to know you better. Be aware you’d find surprises every step of the way, ...

      Silence, serenity, peace, death, love, family, friendship- one giant globe yet the darkness fills the bosom of the light, blinding us from everything we can see and what we can feel.   ...

The rain roars from yards away as her sweet, cold and wet scent engulfs my nostrils. The bird flock hastily migrate, never have I seen such freedom in this world, the wings flapping as I ...

     Christmas knocks at our doors hastily, the celebration of the birth of Christ. The weather in Lagos, Nigeria is certainly a heart-warming relief in comparison to that of Moscow, Russia. As I accompanied ...