The train thundered along the tracks in the stillness of the night, puncturing the silence of the darkness with its noise as it travelled through the magnificent hills dotting the outskirts of Romania. Most of the passengers were asleep. Dr Kress looked forlornly out his cabin window feeling very apprehensive about his reason for this impromptu vis...
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His house stood like an ugly painting among the flawless works of arts that was the landscape of the city sprawled all around him. It still maintained its old, stubborn aesthetic, flirting with memories of 50 or 60 years ago. Jamiu didn’t mind. Infact he deliberately kept it that way because he wanted no part of the rush into the future the town ...
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Adrian watched Samantha from across the room calmly, his hair sodden and plastered to his forehead from the rain drizzling outside, he had followed her and her fiancé down two blocks from wedlock avenue, all the time hiding in the shadows, down to this dank, musky restaurant in the less dense part of the city and had hurriedly taken a seat by the ...
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When I first kissed a girl, I had no idea it was a daring move, a slap to a society stifled with conformities that sometimes resembled chains that shackled one’s freedom to live. I had no idea it was a colourful rainbow that stood gaunt against a grey sky laden with gloomy clouds, clouds that threatened every second to swallow up this beauty. ...
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Somewhere in the story...... The blood trailed down her fingers in jagged lines that spoke volumes, she slowly withdrew her touch from the corpse and cringed at it's grotesque sight. The head was almost completely severed from the body and it hung at a twisted angle, there were holes in the ribs, chest and throats where stab wounds oozed copious...
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It was 11:52 pm. The night was cool and airy. The wind howled through the tiny crevices in the windows and doors and made a whistling, soothing sound in their uninhibited movements. It seemed like a perfect night for a romantic movie and some hot chocolate, a combination I had grown rather addicted to in the past two weeks. I sat at the living ...
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He sat up suddenly, awakened by the noisy racket going on in one of the flats that lined the lower floors. From what he could hear, it was a family tussle and a lot of neighbours had gathered around, shouting and screaming into eachother’s voices. The noise was grating on his tired drowsy senses. A glance at his clock told him it was 2:30pm. H...
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He was our literature tutor for our upcoming JAMB examinations but to me, he was different, he didn't seem like every other teacher we had ever had. He smelt like lavender on rainy mornings and smiled like sunset on those crooked rocky mountains along rural pathways in the clandestine city of ilorin. I loved watching him talk, even though his words...
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Many years ago, in a small town, there was a murderer on the loose. All of the townsfolk lived in fear that they would be his next victim. Over the course of seven nights, seven people were murdered. They were all men and they had all been out walking in the park late at night, unaware that they were in danger. Their throats were cut and their b...
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TUNDE. His eyes squinted open for a brief second and closed shut again. The ache in his temple was dull but persistent. He remained still and allowed his body get used to the pain and subdue it to a tolerable level. When he opened his eyes again, he was staring up at the most unfamiliar ceiling in his entire life. A wide gothic themed overhead, ma...
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