‘You know that moment where your body completely shuts down due to an overwhelming sense of fear but your mind runs in different directions as if trying to comb through your brain for a memory, any memory that will help you out of your present situation. Yup! That’s me at this very moment. I believe …
Everyone has their demons, the saying goes. I had seventy-two of them. I remember the moment it all began. The first time I realized that I was never truly alone. *** I had been only twelve at the time, skinny, ugly, unloved, perpetually hungry. The Reverend Sisters at St. Therese’s Orphanage, Bodija, had made living …
They keep testing my resolve. This time it’s a wooden sculpture of a little monkey. It was placed on top of a piece of paper which read; “Hey Monkey Boy, go back to Africa, your big-ass ape mama misses you” I looked about my front porch and checked my doors to make sure nothing was …
“You’re friends with the weirdo next door. I had no idea.” I say to Amaka. She affords me a distracted grunt and continues scrolling through Instagram. I pad to her bed and plop down. Then I snatch her phone. She looks at me, her face contorted in protest. “I didn’t know you’re friends with the …
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 10 years old when it happened and had just come back from Amaka’s house… she was my best friend. I got home to see my dad bawled on the floor of our parlour and crying like a baby. He clung to my moms picture like a …
Molly sat alone on her bed, reading her soon to be favorite author’s novel, David Baldacci’s The Hour Game. She turned the final page with a huge smile, satisfactied at the fact that she was finally able to finish the novel. Turning, she checked the time, it was ten minutes past 1. She was about …
‘I can’t believe I met a girl who loves games and guys that play games!’. Chike thought to himself. He was so excited. The girl sitting next to him was smoking hot. She was light skinned, her body was as soft as a baby’s bottom and her voice, a melodious symphony to the ears.
Amy woke up with a start, her breathing heavy. She touched her neck and sighed with relief, the dream she had had felt so real that she could literally feel the blade at her neck. Her nightgown, although of a light material was completely soaked with sweat, her pillow as well and despite the cool …