I Will Remember Your Name – Mayor Prosper Ihechi
Because the seers follow you across lifetimes. I am dreaming, and in my dream, we are together again, Temisola- the girl I can no longer remember, you. There is no face. All that remains is a voice, scratchy, like a…
The Gift that arrived at Night | Nande T.S Kamati
Not so long ago, in a time when salt was as precious as gold, there once was a family whose story whispered through the winds of time. They lived in Shamba, a land of secrets and wonders, where every stone…
Famished – Ikechukwu Henry
A young person navigates a deteriorating market while reflecting on their abusive home life.
I.T. People – Doug M. Dawson
We enjoy our birthdays until they make us feel old, remind us of our mortality or portend something unpleasant. Jack Adams had his one month earlier. He had mixed feelings the day he turned 47. When he got home from…
Venn Diagram – Abasi-maenyin Esebre
It wasn’t there. When Victor Akan cut through the small passage just behind his rented apartment and greeted his neighbours in a bright tone underscored by a neutral face, he never imagined his broken-headlamp, paint-bleached, cracked-windscreen, always-breaking-down Audi 80 would…
Drowning Myself – Haliru Ali Musa
This is my seventh day in the shower, attempting to wash away the sorrows of losing my lover. The hot water streams down, but it can’t cleanse the memories. It wasn’t always like this. I remember the first time I…
Nanny Burrows’s Potions – Ian Douglas Robertson
The summer holidays had come at last and I couldn’t wait to get out on the farm. Jimmy Comerton had commandeered three of the men to help him dip the two hundred and fifty sheep we had at the time….
Catching the Wind – Theophilus Mshelia Sokuma
1 Bolaji showed me pictures of his mother the first week we started dating. We were seated side by side on a blue sofa in the living room of his flat in Surulere. The sky had been holding imminent rain…
Domestic Accident – Chizitere Madeleine Nwaemesi
Chizitere Madeleine Nwaemesi is a Nigerian writer whose works have been published by Isele Magazine, African Writer Magazine, The Shallow Tales Review…