Hello, friends! Thank God it’s Friday. For four weeks, I intend to dish you a TGIF Special, starting from today. The TGIF Special is going to be a weekly dosage of enthralling fictional narratives that will keep you spellbound and asking for more. May God help us all. Please enjoy the first dose! “Tribune, Nation, […]
Archives for November 2014
ONCE UPON A TIME
Once upon a time when my heart belonged to me When it lay fallow and grew wild as a virgin land Bringing forth grasses and shrubs and trees Lo, the grasses bowed to the shrubs And the shrubs paid obeisance to the trees And all the trees genuflected to a tree But that tree kowtowed […]
HYPERTENSION FOR THE LAYMAN: NOT TOO EARLY TO BE CAUTIOUS, NOT TOO LATE TO ACT
Written by Dr. David Okorafor Abnormally high blood pressure (hypertension) is very common among us black people but we don’t know because we don’t check it and it doesn’t announce itself. A research says 1 in every 4 persons in the world is hypertensive and 5 out of every 8 black man in the US […]
MUCH FUSS OVER NOTHING
A story written by Omoya Yinka Simult You have been thinking about this for weeks now, envisaging how things are going to work out. It is the last thing you think about everyday before going to bed. It is also the first thing you think about when you wake up each morning. It seems as […]
PEER PRESSURE
A flash fiction by Omoya Yinka Simult ‘It is only Samuel I can give her phone number,’ he says. I smile comically where I lie supine on the portion of the bed. The joy of having someone trust in me this much fills my heart. Of all the four other boys in the room, Blessing […]
CHRISTMAS BONUS: #5000 UP FOR GRABS!
As the Yuletide festivities draw near, there is a cool means to win #5000 without much stress. This is my way of appreciating readers of this blog and every other person for making my 2014 a huge success. All you need to do is read the short story below and perform a little exercise. Everyone […]
I BET YOU NEVER KNEW THIS WORD
Eheheh! My people, when they say Law is an ass, I usually agree that such an assertion is humorously true, being that I’ve severally had cause to read or witness occurrences attesting to its veracity. Forgive me, but I can’t deny that I keep poking my nose into fields that do not directly concern me […]