I stay on the Island with my Dad, at 1001 Estate. His day job involves managing a plastic factory on the Mainland for some heartless Indians whose Visas had long expired, whose stay in Nigeria is now illegal. He doesn’t pay workers, even if he did: he’d slash their money. Because he knows that his […]
Blind Choices – Short Story
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Caught in the Act – Short Story
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The first time Chimkasi began to stimulate herself had been in her bedroom. She was reading one of Mills and Boon erotic literature when she began to fantasize being suckled by her crush, Ayomide. Without thinking, she kept the book aside, grabbed her pillow and made thrusting movements on it. Slowly at first. Then, faster […]
Leave Me Whole – Poetry
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Leave me whole, mother. Let my body sing pristine symphonies, Like seraphs praising the Holiest High. Let my shell be coloured in glazing spectra, Like the eonian beauties of space Let my thighs bleed for the will of nature and not for the sick myths of men. Leave me whole, dear mother! For I remember […]
Reposition – Poetry
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Changing positions Not with force or coercion By associations that brings distinction Wings of wondrous attraction Destined for the topmost elevation Not fighting with blindfolds Punches that crushes the bone The heart of the matter; the peak of the pole Aiming for the heights, the Zenith of the goal Climbing into the pinnacle of success […]
The Afterlife – Poetry
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I was loved at birth When I emerged from the womb Hated at death When I departed to the tomb The journey through life Sharp as a knife A label of fear To be handled with care Sometimes I wonder What lies yonder When it all comes to an end At the end of the […]
Love – Poetry
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Right from the moment my eyes were able to decipher animate things and inanimates I’ve been in love… With sounds, my mother’s nipples, the sounds of music, the visuals of dance, the warm arms that bore me, and the ones that touched my face. Since I began to crawl on my own, feel things with […]
Sir Whyte – Poetry
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Seven seas crossed, sir whyte graced through in his glorious shine beaming like a wedded bride in white. A force to reckon with he was in rampage, he knew his time await And he began, a quest to become the globe’s emperor, lucky he was this time; Afrik his greatest triumph as it embraced in […]