Even if I wanted sex in the afternoon, I know it wouldn’t happen. You’re always busy, doing god knows what at your desk, typing at people who aren’t me, regardless of the fact that it is supposedly me that you’re with. I can just imagine the conversation. ‘Baby.’ Then there will be no reply, of […]
Being a self published author is a bit like being a whore. You work long, hard nights, sometimes unprotected (from the distraction of social media). You wonder when the disease of writer’s block will hit you, if it hasn’t already, stifling any other books you may or may not have left in you – you […]
1 It’s dark outside and no one can really hear you cry. You don’t even know you’re crying until the sharp weight on your chest makes you sit up, and a tear rolls down your cheek. Fucking period. But you know it’s not the fucking period. It’s the man next to you. You hold your […]
Let me tell you the scariest thing about giving yourself to someone, entirely and completely, as if no one will come after them and they are the forever. It isn’t even that if it ends you might have nothing left of yourself to try again with someone else. It is that once you let someone […]
She said: You never want to be the chick who threatens suicide so much that eventually, people stop picking up your calls. In fact, you have the friend who said, ‘Don’t, Jesus won’t let you’ which made you wonder which Jesus she could possibly be referring to, and why he is so unsympathetic. Then there’s […]
She said: I was fingered once on my back in front of the maize cobs that waved in my mother’s backyard. I remember itchy grass and an uncomfortable feeling that something was poking somewhere I did not want it to be; something dry and scratchy like what a scarecrow boner must feel like. Only the […]
I applied for the Ake Festival Grant, but I didn’t get in. Figured I would publish the story here, though. ‘The central theme of the competition is travel, which references geographical or physical movement or in the broader sense which encapsulates migration or mind travel. Submitted work must be original and unpublished. Africa must be […]
