Tulasi – for the Neighbour’s Wife
“Thou shalt not covet thine neighbour’s wife, property….”, roared the voice belonging to the Priest at St. Peter’s cathedral – it rang out from the microphone
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Category: Fiction
A COVID Story
The days following isolation… MONTH 1 World seers and sorcerers lost this in their visions....
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All His Scents
Mazpa Ejikem’s All His Scents won the June 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize. “. . ....
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Crossing The Land
Desmond Efe-khaese’s Crossing The Land was shortlisted for June 2020 Collins Elesiro...
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Read Teju Cole’s New Pandemic-Themed Narrative of a Strange City
The stunning story revolves around a traveler who arrives at Reggania, a strange city likened to Jerusalem or Mecca, whose citizens are under the scourge of the “Visitation”
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THE LONG HAUL
THE LONG HAUL – In Fiction
When it started, I thought, A lifetime chance it was. A twenty-two-wheel long haul truck with eighteen automobiles atop. Enroute to the capital city.
YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN YOU ARE GONE
She reminds you of Bisola.
Your fingers turn into a fist and your smirk turns to a scowl.
How dare she?
Like Goodbyes
Before we broke up, he took me to Mercyland – the famed bookshop. The air felt like ice and the doors slid so easily I could bet they were imported.
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Perdition by Aisha Oredola
Perdition: You see avarice turn into a pool and jump in hastily. Have you forgotten that even too much of sweetness brings forth dire consequences?
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The Silent Plea
The Silent Plea was the second-place winner of the June Collins Elesiro Literary Prize &...
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LEAVING TO LIVE
COMPLACENCY Here are the times stars stopped by, on those nights when mum told you stories of how...
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The Glass Country
I must have dozed off watching the television for when I opened my eyes a bright light danced in...
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