We didn’t meet at my favorite bookstore, the Jazzhole, or at Neo Cafe, my favorite coffee shop, even though I loved to pretend my life was a sappy Korean romcom. We met on the stairs, the ones that spiraled all the way to the top. I had just... Read More

My dearest Ijai, I was up all night; this time it wasn’t because of the nightmare where I try to reach out to you, but the distance between us keep increasing. I always wake up from those in tears and with a crushing feeling in my heart and a... Read More

The time was 5:17 PM. As the bus entered a pothole, there was a jolt accompanied with creaking and then some adjusting but no matter how many times I tried to adjust, the weather was still too hot, the bus too tight and the chair too... Read More

You will find out that regarding love, you can tell yourself a lie. You can be evicted from a place you call your home. I have made my bed here, something I seldom do. I know that wherever my bed is laid fourteen nights in a row, has become home.... Read More

“Hello troglodyte” Susan walked into the house with a nylon bag filled with groceries. “I have told you before, and I am saying it for the last time, the next time you call me that, i will kill you.”... Read More

It started like a dream An uncontrollable one You were the first of many  bursting in without warning your patience never wore thin While breaking my barricade that others failed to see time passed on and on your secret... Read More

Ahuru m gi naya’m It is an expression of my love for you It is the way in which I see you that the rest of the world cannot comprehend It is the way I feel for you that even I, can never comprehend The world glances your way and sees a bloody... Read More

(LOST IN THAUGHT) UMMM, to be honest . I never expected it to fall for you. (flash back) I was late for the mandatory meeting for my foundation classes which took place at babcock university , looking all fresh and on fleek or maybe I was... Read More

It was a Sunday afternoon in a semi-urban part of Lagos, Nigeria. The day was bright and the sun shone with the ferocity of one angered by a jilt. The intensity of the rays roused Olaide from her sleep and she cursed under her breath. Her bump, now... Read More