Starting a plot… How do I even get into that room? I don’t know where she keeps the key to the room. I decided I would have to study her the next time she goes in there to find out where she keeps the key. After this, I would find how I will be...
The Other Room – 1
The Other Room by Ray Anyasi Synopsis Tolu is stuck on wheel chairs for years and there is a room in his apartment he had never entered since his accident. After he watched a certain world leader talk about an “Other Room”, Tolu began to wonder what if his wife has some fetish secret...
This Town: A Postcard of Terror – 6
Chapter Eleven I opened my mouth to say something, but he won’t let me. “What do you have to say about this? How in Allah’s name can you deny this?” “I am sorry I was…” “From the moment you walked into town, my friends have been suspicious of your intention. I insisted we must...
This Town: A Postcard of Terror – 5
Chapter Nine “What are the things goi…” He raised a hand to stop me. “Every person in Damakuli cannot run away just because the town has turned out this way. If we all leave, soon this place will become a vast wasteland of history only valuable to archeologists and their excavators. That is the...
This Town: A Postcard of Terror – 4
Chapter Seven Some kids whose house I think must not be far from there were inside the next abandoned house on my right. I saw only one but heard voices of a couple more. In a sane ideal world -the one 1990s Damakuli seemed like- an enclosed area rich in sand would have been...
This Town: A Postcard of Terror – 3
Chapter Five I heard footsteps coming from the passageway. I could not decide or did not get wise enough to try to sense what direction whoever owned those footsteps was going. Anyone with half his mind okay will begin to roll back the carpet or at the least pause to listen hard. Not me....
This Town: A Postcard of Terror – 2
Chapter Three He stood with agility. I joined him. He is about an inch and half taller. Eleven years ago, I was taller by half an inch. “I would get you something to eat then we get going.” “I want us on our way quickly. I will eat when we return.” “What about a...
This Town: A Postcard of Terror – 1
This Town: A Postcard of Terror Synopsis Abub makes an emotional return to his native village of Damakuli to meet it in sad ruins under the devastation of terrorism. His primary goal is to take his recently widowed, only sister back to the city but everything that could go wrong does. A terror cell...
Bloodline – 5
Fight…Just Spill the Fracking Blood They took a turn to the left. Lightening cracked. Thunder creaked seconds after. Now I was carried with my face turned to the earth and the stake to the sky. The rain was hard; it spattered on the part of my back not under the fat stake. Water...
Bloodline – 4
In Deeper Trouble I knew what they were up to. I would not allow them get me. Papa used to say it’s only a tree that sees a farmer sharpening his machete and still wait till he begins to cut it down. “You are Uzaki.” I said to the girls like I needed...