Flash Fiction

It was the final day of the football competition. One of the two villages participating had hired Kaluana – a dibia – and the opposing team Eleanya, Kaluana’s father to make [...]

My dad had a weird love for chess. As soon as I had turned three, he began to grill me into the game. Almost instantly, the knight became my favourite chess piece. It was so unpredictable, [...]

My heart beat rapidly. I wasn’t sure what was going on, what I was hearing. I could hear heavy breathing but with my heart pounding in my ears, I couldn’t tell if it was mine or if the monster [...]

Sandra flopped on the bed and looked at the blurry ceiling through tears in her eyes. She clenched her fist tighter around the packs of hallucinogen, then brought it to her face. This had been [...]

‘Forgive him,’ they had told her. ‘A man who loves you will always batter you,’ from the infinity of their wisdom, they had advised her. ‘Besides, leaving a man because he cheats is like leaving [...]

“She’s the one”, the quiet admission of the elderly mother and grandmother who was serving as a midwife for this birth was met with silence. Those few words were enough to [...]

Head up, eyes dilated and mind certainly wondering, he scoured the city as he looked through the glass window of the taxi in which he sat. The buildings were tall and very beautiful. Very neat. [...]

I am the strand of black hair amidst white ones. I stand out here, and standing out is never a good thing. So I’ve learnt the art of survival: walking without breathing, retreating myself [...]

Love is you on your death bed; in your final hour, surrounded by flushed crying eyes of helpless loved ones. It’s that moment when your breaths are measured – each one drawing you [...]

There’s a still voice within me. It is pushing my soul, thoughts and heart not to conform to society yet there’s also silence all around me. Yesterday, when the sun slept, it was [...]