Anna Beatings’ Second Death
Anna couldn’t wait for the plane to hit the tarmac. She hated flying. The plane was finally landing and she was only grateful that throughout...
Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Jan 4 - 5 min read
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Gone
*** He rushed out of the hospital headed to no particular place. His legs could barely carry his heavy body laden with fear of...
Dexter Joseph in Short Stories
Dec 16 - 3 min read
The pain I crave
The hospital shouldn’t have felt as grim and soulless as it did, but it felt that way to me. The warm smiles and comforting faces...
Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Aug 10 - 4 min read
Onitsha Shifted
TAUNT It was louder than before. This time it sent a shiver down his spine. He knew his feet were on the move, but he...
Sophia Adepoju in Short Stories
Aug 4 - 20 min read
The Blue-eyed god
They said when he was born, his cries echoed through the small village of Ideka. It was shrill, piercing. They had never heard anything like...
Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Jun 26 - 4 min read
WHAT IS BEHIND THE BEHELD?
They say it isn’t a good reason to marry a woman; That you have to look beyond that, and focus on other things; like her...
Modupe Ojo in Short Stories
Jun 23 - 1 min read
ASSISTANT HOLY SPIRIT
Koto aye was the first horror movie I ever watched. I can’t remember the details of the movie, but I remember how the movie made...
Modupe Ojo in Short Stories
Jun 8 - 4 min read
CRAVINGS
The plan with Kayode was that the babies wouldn’t come till the third year of marriage. Part of the plan was also to have loads...
Modupe Ojo in Short Stories
Mar 25 - 3 min read
I F E
I met Ifeanyi in 2016 at the Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan. It was one of those days when I went to the library...
Modupe Ojo in Short Stories
Mar 13 - 3 min read
How I Grew Up Only After 20.
It was actually becoming an obvious fact to me that my mental growth is not commensurate with my physical growth.It more than dawned on me...
Noah Aderoju in Lifestyle
Jan 21 - 2 min read
Love Is Many Things
Love isn’t just what people like to think it to be. Most say true love is only what a mother feels for the child that...
Ubong Johnson in Short Stories
Jan 4 - 6 min read
On My Way To Mushin
“Mushin Olosha! Mushin, mushin wole!!” hollered the conductor who draped on the yellow bus horizontally stripped with black. I had boarded the bus...
Henry Okeke in Short Stories
Dec 4 - 2 min read
BE INTENTIONAL
I stood by the window, gazing at the leaves and lost in thought. How could it have ended way before it started? It has been...
Amaka in Tell! African Internship
Nov 27 - 2 min read
News of tears
News of tears… Sidi treks hastily on the narrow pathway that lies on the road virtually towards the stream and the stall for making cassava...
Faruq Shitta in Article
Aug 6 - 6 min read
When I’m gone
The only person in the world that could bring down Annie from the edge of that rooftop was lying in a mortuary cooler just a...
David Samuel in Article
Jul 3 - 6 min read
The Naija Slay Queen
Let me tell you a story… A few years ago I was in Lagos trying to get the attention of one shiaman (chairman) to endorse...
This Kole Obasa in Short Stories
May 16 - 3 min read
MARCH 25 – TOMORROW IN PARADISE
NB: THIS IS A SEQUEL. To access the previous episode, click here MARCH 25 – Tomorrow in Paradise “Tomorrow is in God’s hands,” said Nonso...
Jonathan Ukor in Short Stories
May 3 - 1 min read
MARCH 23 – The Beginning
MARCH 23 Nonso is quintessentially an Igbo man. He lives in a government reserved area in Lagos State. He has been in Lagos since 1990 and...
Jonathan Ukor in Short Stories
May 1 - 1 min read
A Story She Never Told
I have read about stories of how men strangled their wives with words and threat while the wives struggled to inhale the breath...
Ashaolu Peter(Petros) in Love, Sex & Relationships, Short Stories
Dec 28 - 2 min read
Junior
Grandmother Bama looked from one to the other, and could not, for the sake of sanity decide which one was more foolish. There, they sat,...
Emmanuella James in Short Stories
Dec 23 - 2 min read
Routine
He wakes up and performs his morning rituals,He ties his shoelaces and walks to schoolOn his way, he sees the women sweeping the leaves on...
Michael Apochi in The Subtle Art of .....
Nov 9 - 1 min read
Games on the streets
That evening at my street was particularly serene. It wasn’t the usual bustles and blaring horns of okadas, it was the young pigs that...
Zubby in Tell! Academy
Aug 13 - 3 min read
WHITE
She liked to look at the walls. She liked to look at the whiteness of the walls as he moved above her. She regurgitated the...
Michael Emmanuel in Short Stories
Aug 13 - 14 min read
WHEN MEMORIES BURN
It wasn’t my fault. I never meant to discourage mum from coming. I wish I had had trust in God and my effort. But, I...
Qudus Ayinde Adebayo in Tell! Academy
Aug 12 - 7 min read
“Classic Beauty Foundation”
The day you leave Chisom is a quiet Tuesday afternoon. It is not as difficult as you had thought. You...
Modupe Abidakun in Cornerpiece
Sep 5 - 2 min read
…But she never got to know how I felt.
I wish I could tell her how I felt April 2,2008. So today,I met the most beautiful girl in college. I was fortunate she was...
Daniel Stevens in Article
May 1 - 3 min read