Apr 10, 2013 | Fiction, Mystery, Series, Short Stories |
Komole is a Yoruba term, which literally means “bend down low.” It is the name given to a dance move that is popular in Nigeria where a person (usually a woman) progressively drops, while dancing until she is crouching low in a graceful manner, without...
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Sep 13, 2012 | Fiction, Mystery, Series, Short Stories |
The following Monday before classes began, just about everyone in Temi’s class had heard about her Friday night ordeal. As she had expected, the girls did not believe Temi when she recounted her experience with Madam. One of her classmates had even resorted to...
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Sep 4, 2012 | Fiction, Mystery, Series, Short Stories |
Temi knew that tune. She was sure the whole school knew it too. It was the school song. The person – for Temi had decided only human beings could whistle – repeated the chorus three times. After the third time, the whistling stopped abruptly....
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Aug 29, 2012 | Fiction, Mystery, Series, Short Stories |
Temi woke up and looked into pitch darkness. Save for the snores of the other girls in her dormitory room, there was no other sound. Well, except for what she assumed to be crickets chirping. But it was not the crickets that had woken her up. “I...
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