Short Stories

Remember when you told her “You will keep this love story for a long time if we’re to do this. “She stored your love story in a tightly lidded purple jar placed carefully in her bedside cupboard. [...]

I was fourteen and had just written the JSCEs. I had nothing else to do so I spent all my time in my room, playing video games and perusing sultry paperbacks whenever the power went out. My [...]

Edith who? There must be a mistake. No. No. No. The news set tongues wagging in Highfields. She was the perfect wife and mother. Definitely any man’s dream wife. Any child’s mother. Edith Ramoke [...]

THE LEVITICUS First, she had to get her sob story straight: “I’m so nervous and I’m struggling to concentrate, yet I need to because, as a lawyer, I want to make a change at the Constitutional [...]

A long time ago in the lands of Igbuzo, a man birthed his only daughter before he died in an attack by a neighbouring community. The widowed wife of the man decided to raise her only child – [...]

Alor Biong moved stealthily along the shores of the river Kiir, ducking low from time to time. It was his turn to watch for danger that might surprise the crew. It had been weeks since his [...]

I sat huddled in the corner of the living room, the cold floor serving as my refuge. Thoughts raced through my mind, a chaotic mix of everything and nothing at all. My gaze drifted to the [...]

I stood by the side of the road in the burning sun waiting for a bus to come my way. I incessantly kept looking at my watch, despairing within my head about how much longer my weary legs and [...]

March 15, 2015 “Father, please don’t go! We hardly spend any time together, and now you’re leaving again!” I sobbed, clinging to his legs as if my entire existence depended on it. He struggled to [...]

That particular Sallah morning at Bagwai was the coldest I had ever experienced. The chill of the harmattan wind made it feel like something, or someone was being avenged upon us. The previous [...]