The Shallow Tales Review
  • Fiction
  • Essays
  • Poetry
  • One-Acts
  • Interviews
  • Arts & Photography
  • Issues
  • Best of a Shallow Year (Editors’ Pick)
  • Reading Shallow Tales
  • About
  • Masthead
  • Submissions
The Shallow Tales Review The Shallow Tales Review
The Shallow Tales Review
  • Fiction
  • Essays
  • Poetry
  • One-Acts
    • Interviews
  • Arts & Photography
  • Issues
  • Best of a Shallow Year (Editors’ Pick)
    • Reading Shallow Tales
  • About
    • Submissions
    • Masthead
  • Fiction

Perfect

  • September 29, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
  UKAMAKA OLISAKWE There once was a time when girls did not sleep at night. Our girl stays awake, too. In the middle of the night she stands by her…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

Uli

  • July 27, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
  CHIDINMA OKONTA CONFIDENCE Mama’s dark skin shines. My first love, she smells like coconuts. Slightly built, yet strong, with smooth round face radiating bliss, she is comely with that…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

Ije

  • July 27, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
  OTTIH ONYEDIKACHI The car swerved past me into the street where I stood by its junction. I turned sharply and ran to a side of the street and looked…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

Flowers Were Her Eyes

  • July 27, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
KOMOLAFE BOLUWATIFE I am going to spend a good percentage of my life in Lagos, the western part of Nigeria. But I share an intense love for Imo, in the…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

WATAFANG

  • July 26, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
RACHAEL IYOKHO I am angry! Do you know what I bring to the table? Without me, there is no Afang. I shrink tumours. I boost blood levels. I am a…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

LETTER TO RISIKATU

  • July 26, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
MELONY AKPOGHENE TO RISI Pain is not just the twinge you feel when you prick your finger with the needle as you stitch up the holes in your shirts. It…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

WHEN A MAN FINDS A SHELL

  • July 26, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
NZUBE NLEBEDIM Young man walks lazily, kicking the soft sand underneath his bare foot. The morning fog lies thick overhead. He looks up with dreary eyes. The fog is beautiful,…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

A STRANGE CASE OF HAPPENSTANCE

  • July 26, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
EMMANUEL MICHAEL Tomorrow, it will be six months since you moved out of the house and began a new story. You do not look like it, like the gaunt man…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

A BUS RIDE HOME

  • July 26, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
MURTHADHO SOHFIYYAH It was the 19th of March 2020, three weeks since Nigeria confirmed its first case. With only twelve confirmed cases at the time, the panic and fear were…
View Post
Share
  • Fiction

LOVEBIRDS

  • July 26, 2020
  • The Shallow Tales Review
EVANSON NJUKI Gb slowly approached the orange throne, her heart racing. Imagine  a hush  falling over the royal Hp republic, in IBM  palace;  a silence  so  profound  that she  could …
View Post
Share

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 6 7 8 9 Next
  • About
  • Donate
  • Masthead
  • Submit
  • Contact
Social Links
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
WhatsApp
© 2025 The Shallow Tales Review. All rights reserved. The website as well as contributors holds the copyright to the works published on The Shallow Tales Review. Content appearing on the website should not be reproduced in any form or republished without prior written consent and approval from the magazine. Violation of this will be deemed criminal and attract due to legal prosecution.
The Shallow Tales Review
A journal documenting the African and black experience in short stories, poetry, one-acts, interviews, art and photography.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.