I watched my best friend drown. I could have called the lifeguards or tried at least to enter the shallow water. But I have seen how drowning could reveal
Category: Fiction and Poetry
Periodically, short stories and Poems would be featured to reflect issues raised on other posts.
Falling – Episode 3 (Grey Wine)
the flickering lights of disco kept him distracted at first. He watched in silence, how all he wanted to be seemed so wrong but yet looked so beautiful.
THE SHADOW OF DEATH – Episode 2 (Grey Wine)
It’s a common saying that death sneaks up on people. Ipade, totally carried away in the euphoria of his lustful escapade is shocked back to his senses by screams. The maids had fled their quarters to the main residence. Tunde runs all the way from the security post, knocks on the door and barges in on Ipade and Vera; both stark naked in bed.
The Wine – Episode 1 (Grey Wine)
The Wine – Episode 1 (Grey Wine). This is me sharing a story I wrote a few years back. It’s been bought a few times but I have decided to
Exclusive: Micheal Emmanuel wins the Quramo Writer’s Award 2018
Michael Emmanuel has emerged winner of the Quramo Writer’s Prize 2018 for his manuscript, Running Waters. With his win, he will receive a N1M
Free Tips and Tools for Generating Book Titles that will Sell.
You can dump an untitled manuscript. A titled book however, has come to stay. That book is forever going to be associated with your name, for as long as it exists.
To be Naked and God
It’s not like God does not have a home so why he still watches people had always been a mystery to me. I had listened to all the sermons about “the ever watchful eyes of God,” I used to laugh…
Inglorious; Angel of Death
I have always been afraid of lightning because it feels so close, and the accompanying sound of crackling thunder gave me terrible shivers. As a boy, I would startle and wake up to see flashes all over the room. The…
Harvey it your way
The waters took their banks with them It was like we cashed out on savings Deposits made by ancestral spirits Long ago we have paid dues Thinking to bribe the water With deaths on high seas We thought that blood…
Lost parable of “the Bible”
There is this parable they forgot to add in our bibles and I want to share it with you people. So one day, Jesus was busy going around and doing good as usual. He saw that the fields were ripe,…
Ablaze Episode 3: The seductress and a desperate friend
The blades of a ceiling fan spin overhead but it’s as hot as an harmattan afternoon, the air in the sitting room is awkwardly stiff. The television hums steadily, a girl in soft silk night wear stands to one side…
ABLAZE Episode 2: Mama makes it harder
“Shut the door behind you,” Onyinye flippantly remarks, Demola had been at the door scratching is scruffy beards for a few minutes. Probably this hostile approach would make her Dad rethink his judgement. Demola holds on to the door and…
ABLAZE Episode 1: Two women, Culture, Conflict, Love and Pain
We could talk of culture, of conflict, love, and pain. In the heart of a buzzing city in Nigeria, Drama plays out like the everyday comic because, in the course of life and death, diversity and differences keep us on…
Turn – A short story
A girl hung herself in my office this morning, looking at her body slowly sway, turn and twist, I had to think about all the possible explanations I could give my wife. I have also taught about that empty fan…
Work Culture: Reports Versus Morning Prayers
My name is Bayo. There is this business I started out three years ago, I hired two beautiful ladies and maybe that was a mistake but let’s just say it has happened, now I need help. Titi is really hardworking,…
SHORT STORY: ALTERNATIVE CHRIST
I have nursed this short story idea for months, I could not really see how it would end but I owe it to all my writer friends to put something out there. It’s sweet to tell people to share their…
Poetry: One Day, Chase Your Dreams While You Can – Saddam Nihor
My good friend keeps blazing the trail and inspiring others on Mondays, he keeps reminding me of how important my efforts are and I think he does a good job of inspiring others. POETRY: ONE DAY By Saddam Nihor One…
#Fiction: Red Metal 3
……continued: The door finally clicked shut, blood stains had started to dry off on the key panel and glazed steel surface of the door. The Air Conditioning system had been on full blast all along, Purple pulls her tattered clothes…
#Fiction: Red Metal 2
……continued: His eyes were dead cold, he seemed to know how to make every contact as painful as the previous one. His precision was a part of his nature that had always scared Purple, he could never be a minute…
#Fiction: Red Metal 1
He had a knife and made incisions, carefully carved to almost tickle and bleed. “don’t do this… ” Purple had to beg even though she felt like demanding or commanding him to let her go. He smiles and shifts the…