Mrs Cole was my birthing mate. We were both in the labour room together, about to give birth to our firsts, until everything…
It was the seventh day of the seventh month of the year. And it was 7 am. The rising sun was blanketed by…
I got away from House 44 to the fourth floor of an old getaway overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. There, the whiz and whirr…
The first time I heard my baby’s heartbeat, my heart beat so fast—not in excitement— but in fear that another human being was…
The matron’s eyes appeared empty of empathy and her voice was void of patience as she called out to the patients. It was…
That Aunt Iwa was getting married was classified information. It caught us all by surprise, and in the same manner, the eviction notice…
I saw myself punching Anwuli’s face as I typed my reply— punching the keyboard with hard and quick knocks— as fast as 100…