Flash Fiction

I flitted around preparing for my surprise birthday/engagement party. My boyfriend of two years was going to propose. I was floating to the sky from the pleasure, but a bleak shroud of grief held [...]

I hear someone’s footsteps outside the door before the door opens. From the assault of disinfectant on my nose, I know it is Mrs. Abigail, our cleaner. “What are you doing?” she asks. Something [...]

Baye sat on the edge of the roughly hewn rock. It was a cool evening in December, and Lokoja was welcoming the sun back into her watery wombs, its crimson glow dancing off the Niger River or was [...]

What truly is religion? Is it as simple as believing in something just as they believed the lies that were told to tarnish my image? Is it worshipping something bigger than oneself just as my [...]

Ross laid on his bed staring at the ceiling, when his curtains automatically opened, ushering sunlight into his bedroom.  For the first time in many moons, he noticed the beauty and warmth of the [...]

As a young boy, I missed a father’s touch. Every evening, I wanted to sit with my father and tell him why the rivers swallowed the fish. He, on the other hand, just wanted to sit quietly and [...]

I sat there in silence, scared out of my wits with my heart thundering in my ears. This was what stage fright felt like, I thought to myself. The crowd cheered as they waited for my performance [...]

“It would rain again,” that, Wemimo was sure of. She hoped her parents in Ilaje were safe. The incessant rain in Ilaje had embraced flooding of its environment. The town had many rivers and the [...]

The pain in my ribs reminded me that I should’ve cared 10 years ago when people protested the clearing of trees to build a new coal factory on the surrounding hills of town because of the [...]

I felt a sense of dread as I entered the polling station. Who else wouldn’t? This was the day of the big election, and tensions were high. The tantrums and curses from each side had set the stage [...]