Flash Fiction

I’m a “go with the flow” kind of girl and I owe spontaneity about a third of my success. Everything in my life started with an unplanned trip to Ghana; that’s where I met the supposed love of my [...]

It was raining cats and dogs that morning. I witnessed pedestrians struggling to get to work with their big umbrellas and official attires. My friend Baraka stood beside me. “Hey sleepy head, why [...]

You watch as your son gasps for breath; battling for life. His stomach growls loudly just as his swinging thin hands try to push yours away when you hold on to it. Your stomach growls in response [...]

Waking up to her baby’s cry, she stumbled on her crippled brother on the doorstep. She shook him thrice, touched his neck, then covered her mouth. He was stiff. “What part of ‘I don’t have’ don’t [...]

Cocooned in black clouds, the wind jumps from behind the forest and rolls down the valley, a tsunami of gravel and branches. Winded, the woodland draws breath. Like an invader, the wind pushes [...]

It was Monday, 16th July, during the wet season of 2019, you skipped breakfast and first period to eat scotch eggs with your classmate in the school’s garden, knowing you were not supposed to. [...]

It’s past midnight. I look around before crawling out of the hole I share with the burly dimwit beside me. “Let’s move,” I say to him. He rolls over the shredded paper and some raw rice scattered [...]

It was a strange Saturday morning and the sky looked ready to pour torrents from its heavily pregnant grey clouds. This was welcome as the heatwave was getting unbearable. At the next house, [...]

The class was dead silent. I sat stiffly with my chest puffed out. Clutching and rubbing perspiration off my palms. Brother Richard moved to and fro; seething with anger which made his whole body [...]

I stopped walking when I noticed a middle-aged woman standing at a distance, eyes fixed on me. No one was nearby, just bushes and speeding buses on the highway. She took hurried steps towards me, [...]