BEEP… BEEP…BEEP ERROR CALL I looked at the number one more time as I clicked on the send button, watching the screen on my phone as the call connected. Strange things sure do happen, I echoed to myself. I just couldn’t believe that the same ‘chick’ who wouldn’t give a hoot about me just wouldn’t … Continue reading Error Call
I turned round and saw the Muslim girl. She was looking very beautiful and radiant, although she had her veil drawled over her head and across her shoulders. She smiled at me, her smile was comforting. “What troubles your mind?” she asked softly. Then, she came and sat beside me before I could answer. Today, … Continue reading Critical Point (part 3)
BY FAMOUS ISAACS Famous Isaacs is a Nigerian poet and writer, author of One Day in the Failing Light of Dusk. He blogs at http://famousisaacs.blogspot.com Holy Emotions is a volume of poetry by Kenyan poet and writer Vincent de Paul. Published by an online media, Create Space, Holy Emotionsdwells mainly on the theme of love. We literally “hear” … Continue reading Review of Vincent de Paul’s Holy Emotions
Yetunde recalled that fateful day her father was said to have bidden the world farewell. She had just returned from school, alighting from a lorry returning to Kuti town from Igaolu village where her school was located. She observed there was crowd in front of her home. Iya Toun, her father’s aunt, used to sell … Continue reading Divine Diary (part 1)
Being noble is good and desirable. Goodness is pleasant and noble virtue. When one is good and pleasant. It’s also true He should be praised in manner most noble. Praise: good and pleasurable experience, Shames me for I beg for it secretly. Man seeks praise deep in his dirty conscience. So he is of all … Continue reading Virtue - for my Best Friend
I woke up with a jerk. I was wet. A bucket of water poured on my head, splashing all over my body and soaking my cloth. “Get up mister,” a voice called out. I looked up slowly. The guy was swarthy and he had an athletic frame. His face was long, and he had Cornrows … Continue reading A Tale Of Reality 6
I’m way out of my league on this one. I thought and I was right. My mouth was parched dry, my heart pumping so hard and loud I was looking round just to be sure people weren’t hearing it pound in her cage. My heart’s a woman after all, she’s cowardly. My mum … Continue reading CRIME 101 Part One
To Precious Pure sparkling big white teeth Full succulent boobs with perky tit Sparky sexy eyes—glowing even at night Beautiful kissable lips… so fresh and sweet Ebony flashy skin—pure and neat Sweet waist, don’t need any food, it’s you I want to eat. So charming everyone loves you The guys, the ladies, all of them … Continue reading My Dozen And One Ladies 11. To Precious
Love is soft Like a butterfly That flutters by. Delicate and Vulnerable Like the heart Of a child. Innocent… very innocent. Yes like A silly artist It colours The world anyhow Just anyhow Like a blind painter. And it flutters by Like a butterfly. Yet mountains Have been moved. They have danced. And the fiercest … Continue reading Madness
The sun that afternoon was burning with the fierceness of an angry deity. On such afternoons, taxi drivers were usually compelled to remain under it and work because that was when commuters cannot bear to trek even the shortest distance or even use motor bikes to their destinations. They preferred the taxis at such times … Continue reading Mind of Diamond (Part Two)
Desola was wheeled away for tests as soon as they arrived back at the hospital. His questions of, “Has she got a brain injury?” “Will she survive?” were ignored by the young-looking doctors rushing about. “I didn’t notice the bruise on her head until she collapsed,” he told his brother-in-law. Her curly weave had done … Continue reading Our Angels 28
The sound of the alarm makes you stir from sleep. You are surprised it’s dawn. It seem like you had only gone to bed. “Put the alarm off nah”. Your voice laced with irritation. The generator your neighbour kept on all night provides enough noise. “Ogechi” you call. Your voice slightly raised. The only sound … Continue reading Maami
It was the first week in December, and primary schools were on Christmas break. Children from the homes in the neighbourhood gathered in the playground. They divided themselves, unintentionally, into groups, based mainly on their age brackets. “Let’s have a drama,” said a bespectacled boy about ten years of age. “Okay. I want to be … Continue reading A Country of Three
Nearly 90% of adolescents had experience infatuation, as at teenage years. It is known as,”love at first sight”, an inevitable love towards the opposite sex, which is rated as abnormal or foolish. It is a great detriment to involve in infatuation and often leads to traumatic and abysmal consequences. The person being loved has no … Continue reading Combating Infatuation
CURTAIN In 2007 a Chinese national was arrested at the Lagos seaport with five containers of ammunition. Illegal arms importation was a capital offence but the Chinese government wouldn’t let Nigeria prosecute their citizen, claiming he was a diplomat with immunity against prosecution in foreign land. He was deported. The Chinese government never prosecuted him. … Continue reading Going Down Chinese Road (day One)