Flash Fiction

It was Monday, 16th July, during the wet season of 2019, you skipped breakfast and first period to eat scotch eggs with your classmate in the school’s garden, knowing you were not supposed to. [...]

It’s past midnight. I look around before crawling out of the hole I share with the burly dimwit beside me. “Let’s move,” I say to him. He rolls over the shredded paper and some raw rice scattered [...]

It was a strange Saturday morning and the sky looked ready to pour torrents from its heavily pregnant grey clouds. This was welcome as the heatwave was getting unbearable. At the next house, [...]

The class was dead silent. I sat stiffly with my chest puffed out. Clutching and rubbing perspiration off my palms. Brother Richard moved to and fro; seething with anger which made his whole body [...]

I stopped walking when I noticed a middle-aged woman standing at a distance, eyes fixed on me. No one was nearby, just bushes and speeding buses on the highway. She took hurried steps towards me, [...]

I am Jimmy; Jimmy the great procrastinator, the forgetful, the Homo imperfectii. With my hands in my black jean pockets, I look like the most confident man ever. My gaze is fixed on the valley [...]

My name is Jamal and I am the first female president of my country. It would impress you to know that I am only just 18 years old! I had done it! I achieved my long-lived dream and won the fight [...]

I was plunged into despair that words are powerless to describe, when my vagina flooded my laps with sticky water. The little mass of flesh budding within me had torn the membrane that caved it [...]

Eshou threw another cannonball at Agbara, it struck him greatly and he was burnt severely. Agbara knelt down and summon the spirits, it was his last card. It was now or never, all the beautiful [...]

You watch Richard drape his hand across Ajuma’s shoulder, his fingertips playing with the flayed sleeve of her Ankara blouse, it’s the casual way of one who is familiar with her body. He [...]