Flash Fiction: An Eye for An Eye
She shouldn’t have been out that night. Anyone with half a wit knew this; the EruOro were not deities to be toyed with. Jola, especially, knew this. So it was...
by Francisca Abeleje · Published November 23, 2022 · Last modified November 26, 2022
She shouldn’t have been out that night. Anyone with half a wit knew this; the EruOro were not deities to be toyed with. Jola, especially, knew this. So it was...
“I can’t save you if you don’t want to save yourself,” said the voice on the other side of the phone. The line crackled and a monotonic voice softly said that there was...
by Solomon Hamza · Published November 3, 2022 · Last modified November 4, 2022
You woke up to the sound of silence. You rubbed your sleepy eyes with your ball fisted hands and peered into the dark. What was that noise? The silence that...
by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi · Published October 31, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2022
It is not every day you come back from school and find your father with a knife in his right hand and your mother, lying in the pool of her...
by Fatima Zakari · Published October 31, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2022
A letter, marked in gold and copper. At the corners, I write my name in the spidery writing she knows to be mine. I dispatch it to the nearest cobweb...
by Fatimah Abdullahi · Published October 25, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2022
He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. Gorgeous brown skin, thick eyebrows and equally thick eyelashes, and eyes that shone like stars. His shoulders were broad enough...
by Cheesom Chukwuma · Published October 24, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2022
I was born like this. My parents tried their best to suppress it, but it manifested regardless. Since I discovered that I was like this, I transform 80% of the...
by Asiru Zainab Oyinkansola · Published October 21, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2022
Amori quickened her steps toward the peculiar pathway to Jagunlabi’s house. Their quarrel the other night left trails of guilt in her heart and she had to cleanse it. The...
by Adedoyin Ademola · Published October 21, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2022
We have lived at number 42 Baker Street for ten years, I lived my childhood there, and my days as a teenager were spent in that small house with five...
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