Flash Fiction

I am Jimmy; Jimmy the great procrastinator, the forgetful, the Homo imperfectii. With my hands in my black jean pockets, I look like the most confident man ever. My gaze is fixed on the valley [...]

My name is Jamal and I am the first female president of my country. It would impress you to know that I am only just 18 years old! I had done it! I achieved my long-lived dream and won the fight [...]

I was plunged into despair that words are powerless to describe, when my vagina flooded my laps with sticky water. The little mass of flesh budding within me had torn the membrane that caved it [...]

Eshou threw another cannonball at Agbara, it struck him greatly and he was burnt severely. Agbara knelt down and summon the spirits, it was his last card. It was now or never, all the beautiful [...]

You watch Richard drape his hand across Ajuma’s shoulder, his fingertips playing with the flayed sleeve of her Ankara blouse, it’s the casual way of one who is familiar with her body. He [...]

It was the final day of the football competition. One of the two villages participating had hired Kaluana – a dibia – and the opposing team Eleanya, Kaluana’s father to make [...]

My dad had a weird love for chess. As soon as I had turned three, he began to grill me into the game. Almost instantly, the knight became my favourite chess piece. It was so unpredictable, [...]

My heart beat rapidly. I wasn’t sure what was going on, what I was hearing. I could hear heavy breathing but with my heart pounding in my ears, I couldn’t tell if it was mine or if the monster [...]

Sandra flopped on the bed and looked at the blurry ceiling through tears in her eyes. She clenched her fist tighter around the packs of hallucinogen, then brought it to her face. This had been [...]

‘Forgive him,’ they had told her. ‘A man who loves you will always batter you,’ from the infinity of their wisdom, they had advised her. ‘Besides, leaving a man because he cheats is like leaving [...]