Category Archives: Short Stories

I was walking out of the house fiddling with the idea that a stray bullet, from nowhere, might pierce my heart. As I stepped out, I placed my right hand on my left breast and began tapping my index and middle fingers in rapid successions. Looking around, I saw that there were scantily scattered people,Continue reading “THE BULLET”

Sesuur is trying tonnes of different things during this lockdown. The lockdown that has kept everyone safe in their homes since February, 22nd. About 184 days have passed. Six months of staying at home to others, but six good months of tremendous improvement to Sesuur. Sesuur is thinking of the next new, big thing toContinue reading “THE AMELIORATION”

The dance was not one of the trending dance moves; she aptly got into the traditional African dance, bending and jerking her back to and fro. It wasn’t her worry that her moves weren’t modern, she just danced to celebrate her children. As she danced towards the miniature stage on which two of her childrenContinue reading “THE DANCE”

Driving down Gbaaondo’s street in Vandeikya, towards GMK football stadium, I saw Anna. Way back, Anna had this huge admiration for me. I once asked her out but she opted out saying, ‘Charles, I don’t just like you; I actually adore you. But you see my life? It’s complicated and I don’t want such aContinue reading “THE WINDSHIELD”

Catherine had a flourishing zeal for music since her childhood but she didn’t get into the finest music school in town because she became an orphan at a very tender age. Catherine lost her father at six, and her mother died the following year. Her father was a peasant, a farmhand who could provide justContinue reading “THE ANTIQUE”

We just met and I was in my usual aura, being friendlily funny. I, possibly, am not very good at making jokes but I always succeed in making ladies laugh so hard. She laughed her moodiness away, kept laughing while I said things that, to me, were basically witty. In situations like this, that haveContinue reading “THE JOKE”

It was practically impossible for us not to steal a glance at each other, ’twas just impossible. I broke it. I broke the relationship. I broke her heart. “Let’s cut ties”, I said. “What do you mean?” she replied. Before we parted ways, she told me she had already seen it coming, that my attitudeContinue reading “THE STARE”

I watched how he was pushed through, on the wheelchair, into the hospital. Can’t tell what ward he was being driven to. He didn’t look like a victim of any kind of accident, domestic or wild. Sweat drops were clustered on his forehead, with that I could tell he was in severe agony. No soundContinue reading “THE ADJUDICATOR”