Category: Fiction

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Shagari Street

  • May 4, 2013

by Dami Ajayi   It always begins with a song. Then memory sets in. Soon you are coursing down familiar roads, back streets, broken waters. Suddenly, you are back here[...]

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High Rise

  • March 9, 2013

By Okwuje Israel Chukwuemeka   “Merci! Not Messi,”Mademoiselle Jaiyeoba said, scowling, creases rumpling the bridge of her nose. It was ninth period, at one thirty. The afternoon sun was smouldering.[...]

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Sometime in December

  • March 8, 2013

by Nonso Uzozie     The breakable plate dropped from Yinka’s hand as she heard the loud explosion.  It was too loud and earth-vibrating. She knew it was another explosion because[...]

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Tax Collectors

  • February 9, 2013

By Obinna Udenwe   Today is not a market day, so we are not packing brooms and beads into baskets to be taken to the market. I am just sitting[...]

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Obsession

  • January 11, 2013

By Obinna Udenwe   Wave. That was what Grandma Ada and Grandpa John called their piano. When Grandma Ada was a little girl, she lived with the missionary nuns in[...]

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Loverboy

  • December 1, 2012

 by Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam   In between rousing from a dream and drifting back into a serene sleep with a noisy yawn, Emeka muffles my mouth with his palm and shakes[...]

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Confetti, New York

  • July 7, 2012

By ‘Dami Ajayi   Marriage, grand as it sounds, was not for me. But no one will understand, most especially Bridget who flew in her gown from Madrid. The bouquet[...]

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Sweat and 419

  • June 9, 2012

by Efe Okogu The heat hit like a solid wall the moment he stepped off the plane. Wet and humid as if the air itself sweated. His pores opened up[...]