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African Stories
“Near-death Experience” — A Flash Fiction by Chimdindu Vivian Esimoleze
She would occasionally inflict pain on herself so she could lick the blood from the wound. It was so disturbing to see. I once caught her with a knife trying…
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African Stories
“Negligence” — A Flash Fiction by Jane bu Smith
Dimma was down with a big fever. Mama who never believed in the word modernization was sitting beside her, a sponge in hand dabbing at her face. There was also…
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African Stories
“Desperation” — A Flash Fiction by Chukwuebuka Harrison Aninze
Jenny was not sure about how to feel when a red hummer finally pulled over. She was grateful to have a customer but hated both him and herself for what…
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African Stories
“The Family of Spirits” — A Short Story by Favour Chukwuemeka
Not everyone is capable of cutting deals with the dead. And I say this as a part of that ‘not everyone’. On the morning of September 15th, I am dead…
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African Stories
“Who Named Me Girl?” — A Flash Fiction by Christiana Jayeoba
I sat over my bunk bed and watched my legs dangling over the edges. “Mummy,” I began, “Why are my legs so small?” Mummy paused in her action and looked…
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African Stories
“The Proposal” — A Short Story by Cynthia Linlin
He gave me the proposal I wanted. The one I spoke to him about those nights we spent in his single room apartment on a bed that was as hard…
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African Stories
“More Babies On the Way” — A Flash Fiction by Favour Chukwuemeka
“I was thirty-three when I had my first intercourse. And it was with your mother,” my dad would say when he wanted to begin a monologue akin to sex education.…
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African Stories
“Sign of the Times” — A Short Story by Psychic
“What is that?” Lola screamed as she quickly came down from her car in the Lagos traffic that was about to begin because someone hit her car. She walked down…
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African Stories
“Your Unexpected Visitor” — A Horror Story by Abigail Chukwu
It’s 11:35. You have been working all night. It just dawned on you that you have have not had your bath yet. You get up and walk into the bathroom.…
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African Stories
“Welcome to Èkó” — A Short Story by Chiamaka James
You left your home by 5:30am to board a bus bound for the city of Èkó. You couldn’t sleep well the previous night because you had to complete your arrangements…
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African Stories
“Strictly Confidential: Part 2” — A Short Series by Favour Chukwuemeka
Read Part 1. She’s begun to eat before I descended from upstairs. Like me, she’s fresh like those models from soap adverts. Her skin’s fairer than the morning sun and…
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African Stories
“Sitting Quietly in the Bus” — A Flash Fiction by Anayo Martin
As you sat quietly, an unknown man with a strange physique sat beside you. His beard and hair looked rough and untidy. He growled and continuously glared at you. He…
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African Stories
“Lagos Sex Escapades” — A Collection of Flash Fiction Stories by Nkechi Analikwu
Of all juicy topics I’ve heard, these perhaps, are the juiciest of them all. I had great laughs hearing all the sweet tales from the sexually active ones among us…
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African Stories
“My Loving but Cheating Husband” — A Short Story by Tobe Davis
I was getting tired of the show. The life of Mrs. Williams did not turn out to be what I had foreseen for myself. I used to be a very…
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African Stories
“Insomnia” — A Flash Fiction by Stella Ugwumba
There are some nights sleep becomes coy with me. Those nights, I watch behind the curtains, the serenity and beauty of how a busy road filled with souls have quietened.…
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African Stories
“Strictly Confidential: Part 1” — A Short Series by Favour Chukwuemeka
Dairy food made Dabira sick; does it still? Walking slowly through the supermarket, I’m trying to picture a welcoming traditional dish in my mind, and then procure the ingredients with…
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African Stories
“Of Hopes Squashed: Of Being a Woman” — A Flash Fiction by Chiamaka James
Standing before you is me, Chiamaka, and this is my story. Today, I came out of the fattening room after two weeks with other girls of my age group. The…
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African Stories
“The Rona Doe Invasion” — A Flash Fiction Story by Mb Banks
Once upon a time, there was a serial killer named Rona Doe. An old man in a young body he was. He started his escapade since he was in his…
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African Stories
“Parents are Joy Killers” — A Short Story by Ayodelekofo
Sex is really sweet. I have no other words to describe it because those are the best words I can come up with, given my current addled imagination of ecstasy.…
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African Stories
“This Life Just Bend” — A Pidgin Short Story by AnikeBeloved
I be confam Yoruba babe wey love pidgin but I no fit yarn am well. This tory about me wey you go read go be the ‘e get as e…
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