I wasn't listening to Simon when he told me about our aunt. He was twelve at the time. With a whisk, I shushed his deepening voice behind the wall o...Read more

" I wish he never pulled the trigger," she whispers, rocking a wooden chair. In her arms is a wooden doll, and on her face is the shadow from a set...Read more

Breath hitched and ragged, she grabbed the pillow and tossed it at him. His breathing, heavy, chest, pounding and lust aflame, he pulled her legs ap...Read more

Sitting around a small fire with small fishes grilling overhead, shrill voices danced in the spotlight, momentarily shushed by rumbling stomachs. It...Read more

The holiday was not over, but time was ticking by, shrouded by the faint illusion of everyday bliss. My two uncles arrived, along with their wives....Read more

As the clouds dispersed and the sky smiled, what Damon Skywalker and Oliver Leaf once called home parted into debris of planks, blocks and a two mil...Read more

Since last year, I have been an ailing patient of Blogshop story contest: stuck in the ward of first round, and almost hitting the mark at second ro...Read more

Everyday dawns on me like a scarecrow in a rice field. My mind shuttles between a firm grip of the osu caste system, and my undying love for Nnodim,...Read more

Dusk had begun to creep in when Maria sent her daughter off to a medical lab. She wanted the girl far off from her outrage. Reports had come from on...Read more

While the war was just a chant on television screens, and amateur choreography of heavily bearded men in uniform, mother made me promise to keep my ...Read more