Early on Friday afternoon the church bell began to toll. It was not the usual hourly chiming of the huge clock; this ringing, slow and repeated, went on for a...
Author - Lucky James Evbouan
Lucky James Evbouan, an avid reader of fiction and creative nonfiction, lives in Ibadan. His writings have featured online in the Kalahari Review, Africa Book Club, African Writer Magazine, and at textandpublishing.com. In 2014 he published a collection of poems titled “Song of a Baby” and in 2016 a collection of short stories titled “Tales from our Past.” The short story collection received an honorable mention in the 2017 literary competition organized by the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). His latest works include another collection of short stories titled 'The Red Octopus' and a revised edition of his poetry titled 'Pieceful Life'.
I’d looked far and wide; searched long and hard! Fresh from school and brimming over with ideas, the desire to show off my journalistic skill drove me. While...
