Sisi, When You Go Get Sense?
Despite the fact that you’d sworn before his face with sand in your tongue that you would never, never step your foot into his compound ever again, you…
Flight 86A
UFUOMA BAKPORHE You know how waiting makes your skin crawl and you hate it. It is why you never wait for your friends to finish dressing up before you…
The White Linen
OGBONNA CHIMEZIE The buzzing sound of the fireflies, the flapping of their wings and the clapping of their tiny legs serenaded the entire atmosphere. I pushed my feet into…
Act of Contrition
OBINNA UDENWE It is Good Friday. Preoccupied with thoughts of having his twin daughters climb his back and ride him like a horse around the sitting room, the man…
In Love with a Dead Man?
ALEX BYANYIKO “I don’t even know why I married you in the first place – not that you’re handsome or even rich,” my mother said, scowling as my father…
A Grave Incident
SULEIMAN AYUBA Every last Saturday of the month, some of the youths of Ungwan Tirka gathered together in the cemetery to level the grass and rid the place of…
Cousins and Cologne
FAVOUR CHUKWUEMEKA The plane would descend in Asaba in about fifteen minutes. This means that we have less than fifteen minutes to be ourselves. The tea trolley finally leaves the…
