THE FINALE

In the first days after Funmi ended things, you simply refused to believe that it was nothing more than another fight...

Your waist beads glimmer under the faint light illuminating your room from the bulb on your ceiling. You like...

It's been almost a decade since your dad died, but you remember it as if it were yesterday. He was wearing his navy...

Death has its underbelly, the subtle finality, gone to be no more. Die and end our miseries. I mentally wave off the

The men who put numbers to the crates bite their beer-soaked lips and shake their drunk, little heads at...

I flip through the pages of my mind nondisruptively — a boy in a manger, star in the sky, preacher on the...

A woman's wedding day is her happiest day, right? Well, it's not like that for Bolu. Her wedding day was...

Three times he had tried–picked up the pen, put it down, almost written a word. The other students...

It’s like clockwork: our love. You wake up each day and sit at your desk. I wake up too and watch you do your thing...

You have come to associate full moons with bad luck. It was on a night with a full moon that you pushed out your child, still...

My father's father made love to the earth. He worshipped it, bent towards its rising sunafter rising run and fed it sweat that...

I don't talk to strangers. What I mean is, I don't have unnecessary conversations with service people. If I have an appointment with a...