THE EMPTY SEAT
The bus was not empty, it was in a strange place, but not too full, so everyone could be scattered out as though you did not really want anybody to have you. An unoccupied seat…
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Where The Empty Parts Go.
The sign was something that had been hanging there for long as I could remember VACANCY.... The white letters on a faded background were really something. One bulb was…
CNF - A Story Of Unspoken Things
There are some memories that don't make noise or announce itself with drama, they just come quietly and stay heavy and stubborn in the chest. so this is one of those memories, as…
Everything I Swallowed (Creative Non-Fiction)
Dear Reader, Years ago, I was eighteen and she was seventeen. They were both seventeen. We sat in her father’s living room planning what we wanted to do with our lives.…
The painful surprise
Mike got into the car with a smile on his face. He had this deep sense of relief. He had been at work for weeks. His job was the type that required him to be on site for weeks…
Unspoken But Felt.
Everybody in the compound knew that something was wrong the moment Aisha stopped talking. See it was not the normal quiet oh, This one was that kind silence that was heavy, it…
I'm Not Mad—Fiction
Image Generated Using Meta AI Kalu always knew he was different. Even as a boy in Umuahia, before his parents died, he had strange dreams—running through the forest on four…
Almost
I met him that evening, and the rain refused to stop. It was that kind of rain that soaked your patience and even your…
THE EVENT OF THE SEASON
Being the CEO of sparks and blooms, an event company that had been in business for over twenty years had made me immune to a lot of crazy things. As an event planner I had seen…
National treasure
Sandy was the ambitious type. Her ambition could not be tamed. If others dreamt of big things, Sandy thought of bigger things. Sandy believed that nothing was impossible to…
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