I was hungry that afternoon and the house was devoid of food. Save for the half bag of rice and the tins of oats, nothing was in the kitchen. Even if I were to decide to …
Category: Fiction
Something worried at the fore of my consciousness dragging me out of sleep. I reached for my phone even before I opened my eyes and switched off the alarm. In the silence that followed, I could …
“You gan, you be suwegbe!” Ibrahim hollered at me as I gazed, mouth agape at him. I was stark naked. We were stark naked. Me, Ibro, Sunday and Olu, all stark naked, and all clutching our …
By the second drawn out silence, it was obvious we had nothing in common. It was as if even the too-bright lights of the restaurant were designed to draw attention to our differences; his shirt which …
The six of us who made up the Nigerian on-site executive team all looked as if we had aged a few years in just three weeks. The seventh person, a man, looked freshly scrubbed and alert. …
Seventeen minutes. That was the time it took for my mother to get me angry. “What did I say now?” she spread her palms, flicking water onto the concrete floor as she did so. “I don’t …
Greg was running late. Again. I patted my tummy and grimaced as it bounced back, full of water. My waiter caught my eye and started walking towards me, smiling. I shook my head and he turned …
“Excuse me, please.” The woman in front of me beckoned downwards. I caught a flash of black rolling in the aisle and picked it up. “Thank you,” she said, reapplying the tube of lipstick to her …
When I opened my eyes, fifteen minutes had passed. I was still not sated. I groped for the rubber bullet and found it wedged between my leg and the cylindrical support pillow which had freed itself …
“Sorry,” a shoulder bumped me as I rounded the corner to the staff cafe. I looked up. “Oh, hi Todd.” “Hello. Abby,” Todd bared his teeth. “Rocking the dominatrix look today I see,” he gestured up …