Ibadan is quiet most mornings. You wake up to the sound of grains hitting an asbestos roof. The old man in the house opposite your apartment has started feeding the blackbirds that perch below his veranda… [12mins]
Category Archive: Short Fiction
Cocks may crow, and the sun’s rays may tinge the dark skies with the golden morning, but time, the mother of destiny, knows the best moment to wake her sleeping child… [15mins]
Oscar, a young pharmacist, jilts his juicy job in Zambia in search of a better life in America. Only, Oscar learns that he has to be three times as qualified to get the same job in America, where he is considered a paraprofessional… [15mins]
That was my wife, Chiamaka, approaching. People thought her puerile and naïve but I deemed her exquisite… [2mins]
Mommy never got up this early; but today she did, with yawns, to take me to my first day of school. I had my hair in bangs of plaits, swinging on the side of my face… [10mins]
She is angry with me. I can tell, because her lips are trembling, her eyes are dilated, and her chest is rising and falling really fast… [1min]
There is a little black bird sitting in the tree outside Lara’s window. She watches it as it turns this way and that, its little chest catching and reflecting the sun rays… [2mins]
