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Fiction · Lit Mag

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The Chase

  • April 26, 2014

by Echezonachukwu Nduka    Although she was not as charming as she thought, Nne liked to think herself the most beautiful damsel on earth. She had graduated and finished her[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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That Day

  • March 23, 2014

by Fiyinfoluwa Akinsiku The late appearance of the morning sun made the day gaunt and Takintayo would always remember it. Not just for its dullness but also because it had[…]

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Fiction · Lit Mag

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A Mouse Amongst Men

  • November 9, 2013

by Ivor W. Hartmann   I came to South Africa to survive, fleeing from the stone-cold house my country Zimbabwe had become. I sit here now and watch the traffic[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Waiting

  • August 11, 2013

by Paula Varsavsky (Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean) _____ He who sits by the door of his house will watch his enemy ´s corpse go by. (Spanish Proverb) _____[…]

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[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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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[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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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[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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The Good Wife

  • May 26, 2012

by Temitayo Olofinlua My phone is ringing; singing “Sweet Mother.” That’s Mama calling. I do not know if I should pick her call. She would sense through my voice, some[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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When it Comes, Will it Come Without Warning?

  • March 16, 2012

By A. Igoni Barrett The morning he slapped his mother, Dimié Abrakasa was preparing to leave for school when she rose from bed, drank the last of the gin he[…]

Fiction · Lit Mag

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Drowning in Ashes

  • March 4, 2012

by Adaeze Ibechukwu   ‘How and where do I begin?’ I ask my younger brother as he opens to the middle page of his long note exercise book and rips off[…]

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