Tag: african writer
Flash Fiction || Head Quarters
“Jerome don enter!”
“Run for your lives!”
Wigs were grabbed, underwear retrieved as each of the seven girls struggled to vanish from sight.
“Where’s Hanifa?” Light skinned Chinwe asked me when we…
Flash Fiction: Lagos Palaver
Flash fiction is a fictional writeup consisting words not less than 100 words but not more than 500.
"Ojota! Ojota! Enter with change!"
I shifted the luggage in my left hand to my right. Lord knows i…
Poetry || The Battle
The bitter pangs
Pangs of deception
Filtering through our bellies
Almost making us retch
Because we had been deceived again
We had fallen for their sugar-coated lies
Diving in head first
And it did …
Poetry || The One Who Left
You watch him leave
And it hurts
Though you knew he would
Before
It will rain
The day he goes away
Down the window pane
Showers down to the earth
Down your face
And onto your pillow
He'd come back…
Poetry || Just Another Love Poem
I know a lot about love
The type that makes the heart ache
And liquor which eases the pain
The type which keeps many awake
Yearning for day break
When perhaps the pain would go away
I know about lo…
Flash Fiction || Nightmare
'Come with me.'
She said and held out her hand.
I took it and she dragged me with her into the water and I drowned. Woke up covered in the sweat of her who looked so much like me.
I would stay awak…
Poetry || The masquerades
You are a masquerade
I said to her
Wrapped up in your own layers
Layers of complexity
And doing a frenzy dance
Which many watch
Fascinated
But unaware of the heat which burns
Underneath your regalia
S…