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Category Archive: Short Fiction

London Wife: by Ayodeji Benedicta Matuluko

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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]

January 10, 2016 Short Fiction

Abiku: by Nnamdi Ehirim

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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]

January 7, 2016 Short Fiction

The Paraprofessional: by Perpetual Murray

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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]

December 6, 2015 Short Fiction

I Saved My Marriage: by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto

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That was my wife, Chiamaka, approaching. People thought her puerile and naïve but I deemed her exquisite… [2mins]

December 6, 2015 Short Fiction

The Opening of Her Eyes: by Linda Yohannes

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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]

December 6, 2015 Short Fiction

Eba, Efo Riro and a Serving of Tears: by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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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]

December 6, 2015 Short Fiction

Poised For Flight: by Pamela Naaki Tetteh

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]

December 6, 2015 Short Fiction

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