It’s raining… I can’t help but smile at the irony as I feel my blood slowly leave my body. It is said that when you’re about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. All that flashes before my eyes are my mistakes and regrets… I was young when I married Femi, young and foolish. …
“Bless me Father for I have sinned.” “Go on.” The cathedral was silent save for the priest and the individual at the front pew. It was almost dark out, if not already. A time of the day that people normally wouldn’t be at the church; men usually the ones returning home late from work or …
So it happened that I was watching a video in which a young man in his early 20s called Jamal was expressing his indignation at the way the Fort Worth, Texas Police handled the gruesome death of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28 year old black woman on the never-ending list of black people mowed down by …
A young lady walks by and stops in the middle of the room. She turns to stare at the screen. ‘(Curiously) why are you here? Oh! (Realisation) you want to read something weird and freaky? Something that’ll make your heart literally skip a beat.’ she pauses and tilts her head to the side. A beat. …
‘You bitch! How dare you lay your hands on me?!’ Years of receiving blows steeled me for daddy’s punch I knew was coming. After all, that’s all I’ve received, all I’ve learned to receive. Blows, slaps, fucks… another one or two wouldn’t make a difference. So I steeled my face for that oh so familiar …
Obsidian “There are numerous people with abilities out there. When you finally leave this place to start on your goal, you’ll meet a lot of them.” Raigo said, ruffling Zak’s hair. “If you ever become their target, you must run first. But when you cannot run, you must fight. That is why I am training …
Shadow Cacodemons, evil and darkness incarnate, and in all its malignity. I could still sense Edum’s mental distress even as I met the charge of the hellions. It was like a beacon. A beacon on a frequency which resonates with a melancholic amplitude. So loud to my ethereal senses that it was hard to ignore. …
And so it happened that I was present at a discourse which had the concept of charity as its centrepiece. There were many interesting viewpoints from everyone involved and I spent most of my time listening, making mental notes, comparing, contrasting and looking at all perspectives on the concept which is charity. It happened that …
MEMORIES …Little shivers ran through my spine as I took a dive in the deep sea of memories. Thoughts I had avoided for weeks were now all over themselves. Filling my head, circling me like a shiver of sharks would to a bleeding prey. My mouth gradually soured and I involuntarily clenched my fists. Why …
My mother once said pictures were like peepholes, if they are wide and clear enough, you’ll be able to see everything you want just from a glance. I don’t know if that particularly makes sense, but it was especially funny when she tried to fold her six foot four frame into someone smaller. She’d wear …