The Passenger Nobody Collected
"Madam, can you tell that man to stop following our bus?" That was what came out of the conductor's mouth that everyone looked towards the left window side. I was sitting in…
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AN INVITATION TO THE MARKET OF THE DEAD🥀💀__#55
I have never believed in ghosts until the night I followed the masquerade. In my village in Nnewi, they tell children not to go out on the night of October 31st. Not because of…
THE VOICE CALLING FROM THE KITCHEN
The first time I heard my dead father calling my name, I did exactly what any sensible man would do... I covered my head with a blanket and pretended I was still a child... My…
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
I had too much to drink and knew all I needed was a good sleep. As I went to bed the next thing I saw was a shadow moving. Immediately my mind knew it was the drinks speaking so…
The House Nobody Wanted To Enter.
There are some places that look completely normal during the day but become something else entirely at night, a house can look beautiful in the afternoon, with flowers around the…
DON'T GIVE IT A MOUTH ___PROMPT #55
Tunde's father was the best carver in Mushin. Not chair, not door. He carved faces. Eyo faces, Egungun faces, masquerade faces. People came from Ikeja, from Yaba, even from…
THE HOUSE THAT REMEMBERS HER NAME
Nobody has lived in the white house at the end of Unity Street for eleven windows are always open, but no wind moves the curtains. When Zara returned to Awka after five years…
MARRIED TO THE AFTER LIFE 💀🥀
Amara thought it was a dream. The cold was the first thing she felt. Not the normal cold of harmattan, but a deep, old cold that entered her bones. Her eyes opened and she was…
MY NIGHTMARE JOB IN LAGOS __#54
Everyone in my village thought I had made it. When I got a job in Lagos, my mother killed chicken. My father prayed for me in our compound in Nnewi, "My son will work in big…
The Light Under the Door
“Please, uncle Matthew, don't switch off the light.” I hear those words from my little niece, Gabriel, just as I was about going out of the room he was staying in. He was…
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