The smoke is serpentine, reminding me of a carpet viper I saw on a trip to Furaha Wildlife Haven many years ago. Music blares, a cacophony mingling with the...
Author - Kenechukwu Childless Obiezu
Kenechukwu Childless Obiezu is a practicing lawyer based in Abuja, Nigeria. He has copious interest in reading, creative writing, people and places.
Solwezi, Zambia. Visola felt the long bruise behind her neck and the swelling on her cheeks. Tears leaked out of her eyes even as her heart disintegrated into...
Talata picked up the crying Tamboul, ready to carry on with her itinerary to nowhere. As she put the child on her back and proceeded to fasten him with her...
The rats scurried in the ceiling as if lost in an intense Olympic hurdle. Atop the trees, the birds sang almost in unison, some leading the varied birdsongs...
Nnenna cast her tear-filled eyes on the coffin and for the first time on a day that had remained as darkly cloudy as the searing pains it held, a scream...
He drove the nail harder, increasingly growing careless about the safety of his free hand which held the nail in place like a writer holding a beloved pen. It...