She is standing at the balcony on a cool, beautiful afternoon, her eyes gazing at the scenery before her as she muses. The blame is mine, she thinks at first...
Author - Ify Tony-Monye
Ify Tony-Monye is the author of two novels ‘What Goes Around’ - her first published work of fiction and ‘To Dance With Shadows’ – her latest novel, which won 4th place at the 2021 Switzerland Literary Prize. Her short story ‘A Gift From The Gods’ is published on AfricanWriter.com. She was a guest on Adesuwa Onyenokwe’s TV talk show ‘Seriously Speaking’ and was interviewed by Daily Trust Newspaper’s Nathaniel Bivan for their Bookshelf section. She writes from Nigeria.
Heavy footsteps hit the ground with thumps. Chickens scurried away in fear. They’d been scavenging for worms in the soil and couldn’t risk being crushed to...