Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here There was something off and sinister about Sidney’s home. It has this eerie spooky ambience that engulfed it. Perhaps it was the gothic design of the building, or the bizarre but rare and expensive art collections that littered the interior, the mummified kangaroo head that was nailed […]
Welcome To The Family 3 – Short Story
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Abo’baku – Short Story
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Abo’baku: Destined To Die With Kings Oba Alade was dead! The ground shook and fear took over the entire village, where were they heading to? The Oba’s only son was studying outside the country in Ottawa. The Oba was old, wrinkled, stressed out and obsolete; that was all I knew, but why did he have […]
Makeover – A Short Story on Domestic Violence
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I know how it hurts. I have seen him inflict pain on her time and time again, watched him deal her blow after blow like Mohammed Ali in the boxing ring, witnessed him cut her heart into pieces with words. Only God knows how she has survived these abuses, only God knows. I alone know […]
Welcome To The Family 2 – Short Story
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Read Part 1 Here I was like the son Sidney’s dad never had. He took interest in me and gave me a new name: ‘My boy’, he calls me, with pride and approval. He took me around and showed me off; to his friends, business colleagues, politicians, virtually anyone that crossed path with us. “Yes […]
On Nights Like This – Short Story
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I haven’t decided if I’m going to kill Kwame or make the elders banish him from the village. Adala says I should castrate him- I think it’s a very good idea, only that it loudly shouts revenge; I’m afraid the villagers may find me out. There’s so much evil to choose from and I can’t […]
Where Did I belong? – Short Story
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I tilted the trash can to see if any one still wandered about the street. I wondered when the hustling and bustling of the city might stop but it may never come. Noon had dawned on the city, so it was the perfect time to carry out my personal operations Who was I? A social […]
Of Curses and Loses – Short Story
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If someone would have told Mamawa that swindling her brother Kwame, over their late father’s bicycle was going to invite trouble in her life, she would have still gone ahead and done it. In fact, she would have quarreled and even beaten up that someone first, for she was that kind of woman. Things like […]