I knocked three times before I realized I had to use the doorbell . What was I thinking? The creature that appeared before me a few seconds later, holding the door knob, was nothing close to what I expected. …

The female student with the biggest butt in the whole wide school is leading praise and worship in the assembly, standing with her back to the principal and his vice. Hehehe, Mr Ebube, he is looking everywhere but that butt. Pity the gentleman. Every male teacher seems to be looking…

MY SEAT PARTNER When I was in Primary one, we had a lot of dumb students in my class. I was lucky to be among the very few extraordinarily dumb ones. I know this because my English teacher once asked me to spell the word “government,” and I did, starting…

𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗧𝗛 Bernard looked down at Jacqueline's face for the umpteenth time. She was fast asleep on his shoulders. He leaned and kissed her hair, inhaling her elegant fragrance. She smelled like holiday. Like the spring nights in California. Those nights he spent with his mother, gazing out of the window…

I'm standing over my dad's head. I have sweat on my forehead. I mean, I'm sweating everywhere. And, Gosh! What's that hot liquid filtering its way in between my thighs — urine? I clasp the pistol tighter. Just one bullet in his head and I wouldn't need to watch him…

𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐑 My morning duty post is at the library. I couldn't have asked for a better place. Don't get me wrong, I hate books as much as you do, but I just love the way they smell. They remind me of my mother. She spent too…

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 When I have my migraines I like to believe there is some carpenter in my head, squatting just above my eyebrows with a chisel, hitting and hitting with his hammer, trying to bore a little hole to put in the sense I need to live my…

𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 When I was little, I caught my father brushing his teeth at our backyard. Nothing weird, right ? Only that he was actually holding his whole teeth with the gum in his left hand, and brushing it with his other hand. I was stunned. I wanted to run…