Once, I had a stalker. I don’t know how it was that he took interest in me, or how it began, or how long he had been planning and designing– but soon as he launched out, his every move took me unawares, completely by a strand of hair. He would... Read More
Blog Festival Submission Has Ended; #BlogFest Starts on the 1st of December 2017
Hey Elsians, Submission for 4th edition of ELSiEiSY Blog Festival has ended. Special shout out to all the bloggers and writers that sent in an entry. You all are amazing. Thank you. The 30days Writegasm will be featured here from the 1st of December... Read More
2017 ELSiEiSY Blog Festival – Call For Submission
Sincerely, I am still in awe at how the year 2017 is already ending. The previous edition of our Blog Festival seems like just yesterday. I am of the opinion that time flies faster as we grow older. You know, you have gotten to that point in life where... Read More
Blog Festival | Yellow, Black & Ola | by Kayode Adeleke
My name is Ola Komolafe. My fears are constantly increasing like the temperature of a pot of water on a stove. Pangs of hunger grips my stomach, and I can feel my intestines whither because of inactivity. I am already used to the darkness, the extreme... Read More
Blog Festival | Adanma | by Esomnofu Ebelenna
When Adanma turned seventeen, Darlington bought her a bouquet of flowers and remarked that she was as beautiful as the flowers. But now, Adanma was twenty, Darlington said he could not compare her with those flowers. She is lovelier than the loveliest... Read More
Blog Festival | Emily | Darren C. Demaree
EMILY AS A SCRATCH, A KISS I would sneak outof my own skinif it meant that I could catchthe angle of Emilywhen, from my periphery,she decides to bethe sun graspingthe porchof my whole body. EMILY AS WE IMAGINE THE SWARM The red... Read More
Blog Festival | Journaling, Labeling Theory | by Michael Lee Johnson
Breaking news this just in,1:15 PM December 15, 2013,I found out labeling theoryhas a personality.It has impact of its own.I love today because Ifound out I have a mental illness.Formally, diagnosed,now I am special.Shrink, Dr. Pennypecker, knows me... Read More
Blog Festival | My First Night | by Isaac-Kola Adegboyega
With great expectation and ecstasy, the day arrived. After rigorous planning, spending every imaginable and conceivable income earned or borrowed, the D-day is here. After the bachelor’s bash, a day before that dragged into the early hours of... Read More
Blog Festival | Everybody Complex | by Nkem Oyaghire
I sat in the exam Hall with 24 students clad in blue and white. Silence all around expect for in my ears, Chris Brown and Jhene Aiko sing their drunken blues. In this drab and utterly cold class; I waited for the time to pass. 12:30 couldn’t come... Read More