Os’s frustration, extract from draft of “A Quest for Solace”
‘We are always praying. If 200 million Nigerians are praying for an hour a day for food and water and…
The Indomitable H-Mum
Everybody needs a propeller- excerpt from A Quest for Solace Armed with her own experience of growing…
Nobodies Died
We hoped nobodies die We know nobodies died Nobody WE know died But, Nobody knows who died Nobody who died…
Deleted Scene A Quest for Solace (contd)
Haycoplaynt stepped centre stage. ‘What Tim is saying is quite nuanced and as I don’t expect blanket comprehension I won’t…
Deleted early scene from A Quest for Solace
Georgina, Cody Haycoplaynt’s partner, bustled into the lecture room, also in a dark suit. Many said she wept to the…
Ode to my childhood friend
It was only this morning as I went for the Sunday papers that the memories hammered me into submission and…
The Machine Broke
A Metaphor for a Broken System ‘The machine broke,’ she said. Mrs. J J had been referred to a London…
The Big Interview
Friday the 13th, the day of her big interview for the post of head of department. Os waited in an…
Pocket Depth and Premature Deaths
The Dream of U Thant When I was five or six, I wanted to be U Thant. The bespectacled Secretary…
You couldn’t make it up
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The wife with the golden nib
In parts of the polygamy belt of West Africa, a wife helps her husband find a new wife. The incumbent…
A Lament for No one’s children
No one’s children died the envoy implies meaning the children of no one he knows died When the truth is…