‘Father Lord, bless me’ ‘Be specific, you have 20 seconds to ask the Lord for one thing’, the voice announces ‘Lord, give me a car’, you ask, whilst picturing yourself cruising with the family, swerving to the left and right, blasting some cool music on the highway…of course, a smile is on your face. This is […]
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Option 1 or 2
‘Nah I must be hearing evil voices, kadadadayamase. I bind and cast into the bottomless pit every demon on assignment to truncate my destiny. Oya be destroyed, roast by the anointing. Pack and go! Melt! Be shattered by the rock of ages’. A man is seen pacing back and forth a room devoid of sunlight […]
Sex was like “good morning”
My name is Raphael O. and a pervert is a perfect description of who I was in my high school and early university days. Fornication was my best food and sex was like ‘good-morning’ greetings to me. I was so promiscuous that I wouldn’t mind having a fling with friends and even sisters. Unfortunately, I […]
Nnamdi
The normal Nnamdi would have closed his eyes and sang along to the song on the radio but he still had not gotten over what happened moments ago. He shifted to the window looking gaunt and rather out of place in the vacant bus. It was not as if someone had died or anything like that, […]
Indelible mark
Rotimi stared at her lips. He silently thanked God that his spittle had not gone any further by a mini-inch. It would have entered her mouth. Her stoic expression made it impossible to determine if she had noticed. Why on earth wouldn’t she? If she had, and was pretending not to have, she was doing […]
Indelible Mark
Rotimi stared at her lips. He silently thanked God that his spittle had not gone any further by a mini-inch. It would have entered her mouth. Her stoic expression made it impossible to determine if she had noticed. Why on earth wouldn’t she? If she had, and was pretending not to have, she was doing […]
My name is Nkem
My name is Nkem and I am angry. Upset. Mad. Infuriated. Don’t ask me why. Please. Don’t ask me. If I tell you, you would judge me and it is not worth it. But you are insisting, so… I am here, sitting through worship, wondering why on earth he did not show up. I have dressed […]
One
When I was way younger, I used to write stories like: “the old woman and the boy”. These stories were very predictable. E.g. “There were two boys, one good, one bad. The bad boy did not help the old woman carry her load whilst the good boy obviously helped the woman. The old woman blessed […]
The “how” of the matter
A friend knocks at your door on a very tiring day,he does not even wait for you to open up before pushing his way through with irritating chants of “I have the solution… i have the solution”. You’re just thinking solution to what? when he blurts out “I have the solution to Nigeria’s electricity problem!”. Lol. It […]
Neighbour
(Written in Nigerian pidgin English) If you know say you no pay me my money, better bring am out o. Silence. Eee eee eeee. Somebody wey dey inside this bus no pay me my money. It suppose be 1,600 naira, but na 1,500 dey my hand. Silence. Oooo. I say somebody wey dey inside this […]
