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Single: The Song of A Lone Poet

by Samuel Amazing Ayoade | Jun 9, 2020 | Poetry | 0 |

• night: a thousand nocturnal voices & a hundred homeless thoughts seek solace in my head each...

maybe men are the truest carnivores

by ifeomannewuihe | Jan 30, 2020 | Poetry, Poetry, Prose | 0 |

maybe men are the truest carnivores i want to eat you it is a hot afternoon when he texts...

Like Goodbyes

by Michael Emmanuel | Oct 4, 2019 | Fiction | 0 |

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.

LEAVING TO LIVE

by Editor-Itanile | Mar 28, 2019 | Fiction | 0 |

COMPLACENCY Here are the times stars stopped by, on those nights when mum told you stories of how...

Women Who Love

by Editor-Itanile | Jan 30, 2019 | Fiction | 0 |

Lami had wanted to tell her mother that she thought it was pitiful, this continuous mourning of a man who left his wife and two-year old daughter for another woman.

WALK TO FREEDOM (#Dec2018)

by PrincessNaya | Nov 30, 2018 | Fiction, Magazine | 18 |

I loved my mother. She was my father’s typical script, playing roles that were directed only by patriarchy. My mother fitted perfectly into his constrained perception of what a woman should be; the type that says ‘you can only...

Elegy of a Boy who Fell off the Cliff #Dec2018

by Anu Soneye | Nov 30, 2018 | Magazine, Poetry | 20 |

Elegy of a Boy who fell off the Cliff. Below the white linen on the medical barrow are putrid wounds; Of torn flesh, smashed marrows and stretched meat. The ruins and remains of a fall from four ten feet Of a faceless boy who...