The day Daddy came home with the mirror, we knew it was The Thing. He placed it on the table in the parlour. Carefully, as..
It is September, again. I close the window of my dorm room to shut out the deafening siren of yet another ambulance rushing a poor..
“Did he touch you?” This has been the prevailing question in my life ever since I wrote the common entrance exam. My parents asked it,..
The process of “civilization” is a continuous negotiation of what it means to impose order on a world given to entropic tendencies. The traffic warden,..
Maybe truth, not lies, crashes homes. It is why she can watch and shrug as her hostile neighbour’s six-or-so-year old crouches under her father’s ramshackle..
Jean-Baptiste was running. He had been running for a long time for different reasons. He would run to the market to buy tomatoes. He would..
In this version of it, you are rolling around a grass field in Owerri. You are laughing so loud and the sound of it is..
She enjoyed simple moments. A certain stillness engulfed her as she slowly clipped her nails. The quietness in her large room spread out around her...
My grandmother’s head pushed through the metal of the fence at the university. She looked exactly the way she did in the photographs mom kept..
1. My mother left my father’s house on a Sunday. We had just returned from her new church when she started throwing our shoes and..
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