Short Stories
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ITUNU…
Happy New Year in a bit guys. Closing the year with this incomplete short fiction story which I started writing sometime ago in the middle of the year after a friend of mine suffered a miscarriage and courageously spoke to me about it, and even adding to the torture, her horrible experience with medical personnel.…
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MAN OF GOD
The day I swore to stop attending my mother’s church, I was 18 years old, in university with the chance to for once be rebellious and get away with it. I was grown and old enough to make the decision of quitting her church, Sanctuary of Glory Evangelical Ministry Inc., but you see, I grew…
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FLIGHT; A SHORT STORY
The woman who sat by me on the flight from Accra to Takoradi sometime in February had never been on a plane. It was obvious when she asked me to help her fasten her seat belt. It became more obvious as the plane ascended like a bird with a bad limp, and a cold hand…
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NO NIGGER NURSE; A Short Story
“I’m not even bloody nurse…” This was Ada’s thought as she put on her TV and skipped through the channels. There was nothing in particular she wanted to watch, but TV was always a good distraction. She would stop skipping every now and again, for a little while, if something caught her attention. She stopped…
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SHORT STORY; BREAD
When two weeks ago I was served bread on a flight, I remembered a bakery in the area where I grew up in Ibadan. The man who owned it was tall. We didn’t know his name so we called him baba oni bread. He was extremely dark and hairy. He never wore a shirt, I’m…
Tope Owolabi 