Dear Hot Legs, I don’t seem to know where or how to start this letter, or put down my words. You don’t say a word but your silence is deafening, that it beckons me to respond to words yet unspoken and for someone who has a way with words; I am... Read More

The stars were shining hard now, like little stubs of diamonds, but only seemingly more alive. Mimi wiped her mouth with the back of her sleeve, slowly, absent-mindedly. Her mind was heavily burdened with the thoughts of Victor. Victor, her Prince... Read More

 I have been heart broken, I will never love again. Perhaps, True love were predestined. Emeka said “He wasn’t into me anymore,”. I cried my eyes out. Emeka had played my heart like a ball and served it on a dirty plate for me to chew. I... Read More

The sky was dark-blue like the night sea turned downside up. It was not one of those dramatic nights with stars spangled across a boastful sky. It was, rather, a humble one with hidden stars, dimly lit with a half-moon. Birds were not chirping neither... Read More

I see you in my thoughts and dreams. When I’m awake, it feels so real. You’re not here to comfort me But soon I know you’d be. “Soon” that’s what you promised I hold on to that so tightly ‘cos I don’t... Read More

I couldn’t sleep. Two minutes into my slumber, I was awoken by the sharp pain in my head, no.., it wasn’t a headache, it was a thought, one which I had sheltered since the day before but hoped to have numbed it after a good night sleep. But how... Read More

Our mother had committed suicide on Valentine’s Day eight years before, leaving behind a note which informed us about her breast cancer. “I can’t deal with it. Can’t cope with the pain. I haven’t been as strong as I used... Read More

I saw age in your eyes It was braided into your smile Like a woven basket. And your hanging dimple Slopes like Erin falls. It troughs through your smile Into the gully mound of your cheek Like a splattering fall On a creasing rock. Your chin, once... Read More

CHUKWUDALU, I STILL ASSURE and re-assure myself that it isn’t to me, that it is to some guy out there, maybe in a film, that this is happening, because that is how this is, like film… like film. Or maybe you were just joking, rather pulling my... Read More