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Recent Posts
- Dear Storyteller, We Need New Folktales
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- An Obituary for Footwear
- Why Bola Flung her Daughter’s Novel through the Window
- Strictly No Standing (Pixels & Poetry)
- Okada for Donkeys (Pixels & Poetry)
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Flash fiction Archive
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The Late Buka’s Last Customer
Posted on March 12, 2015 | No Commentsderanged words like 'fantabulous' trembled on his tongue -
Afi & Killjoy
Posted on August 26, 2013 | No Comments...Afi’s mechanism of disgust was an illogical and implacable beast... -
Daystarter
Posted on June 25, 2013 | 2 Comments'somewhere, for some reason even he could not fathom, someone loved her, selflessly' -
Winner Takes All
Posted on June 12, 2013 | 1 CommentThough her womb was quickening, it yearned for the seed of her suitors, not barbarians. -
The Seductive Yellowness of Yams
Posted on March 13, 2013 | 8 CommentsYou will ask me how I could tell all this just by the aroma and a tasting, but the nose knows, my dear, the nose and the tongue, they know everything -
Let Me Tell You About the Sweet Fish, Assia.
Posted on February 27, 2013 | 6 CommentsEven in the great beyond, the judgement book for the rat race was scripted by humans and played out by spineless RatGods with a colonial mentality -
Lessons They Didn’t Teach Me in Tourism School
Posted on January 17, 2013 | 6 CommentsI've never seen bedbugs myself, so I'm not an expert on their rashes. I specialise in my hotel business and in this particular hotel, there're no bedbugs. -
Condoling the Twins
Posted on January 11, 2013 | 4 Comments‘Stop taking the name of the Lord thy God in vain,’ counselled Uncle Toyin, lugubriously, ‘Aunty Ranti has lost a kidney, but she is alive and well.’ -
Woman minus Man
Posted on October 14, 2012 | 6 Comments'She swallowed a morsel of affanged eba, and paused, blinking rapidly at the knowing ceiling fan that waved his white, consolatory palms at her.' -
Remembering Remilekun
Posted on June 23, 2012 | 4 CommentsIt was the bane of his life: a memory like a sieve, that completely forgot out-of-sight friends and relatives.