Short Stories
We have got a collection of riveting and suspenseful stories authored by writers from different backgrounds. If you love fascinating stories like us, you will find some lovely ones here.
ONE DARK NIGHT by Oloruntobi Ayomikun
ONE DARK NIGHTby Oloruntobi Ayomikun Second Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) “Stop dia!” The Policeman shouts as he shines his large flashlight at our oncoming vehicle. The bus driver nearly loses his hand...
AND THIS IS HOW THEY BECOME BEAUTIFUL by Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba
AND THIS IS HOW THEY BECOME BEAUTIFULby Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba First Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) The boy wants to cry. He sniffs in mucus for the umpteenth time, but his mother holds his arm and...
A MATCHING PAIR by Agbai Emmaterry Chinonso
A MATCHING PAIRby Agbai Emmaterry Chinonso Winner of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) “Good night mummy!” Benjamin calls as I walk past their room. “Sleep dear, you have school tomorrow.” “Must we go?” Grace, the...
THIS TOO SHALL PASS by Jesutomisin Ipinmoye
THIS TOO SHALL PASS by Jesutomisin Ipinmoye This Too Shall Pass - Second Runner-up of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) To Peter. Your mother, a woman of greying skin and brittle bones told me that was your first...
A FEELING WITH NO NAME by Chiamaka Ejiofor
A FEELING OF NO NAME by Chiamaka Ejiofor A Feeling of No Name - First Runner-up of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) Maura sat in the therapist's office that smelt of exhaust fumes and feminine cologne, and had the paint...
SING ABOUT ME I’M DYING OF THIRST by Daniel Ogba
SING ABOUT ME I'M DYING OF THIRSTby Daniel Ogba Sing About Me I'm Dying of Thirst - Winner of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) Everybody for Odogwu lodge hear am that night… * Eduboy first came to my room one sunny...
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT by Gordon Aywa Anjili
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT by Gordon Aywa Anjili The piercing ring of the alarm awoke him. He forced himself on his back, raised his torso and rested on his elbows. He glanced at the clock. It was still dark and he could not read the time. He switched on the bed light and...
BITS by Chantelle Makenwa Chiwetalu
BITS by Chantelle Makenwa Chiwetalu She wonders how the conductor will look dead. Bruised, battered eyes the size of coconuts. No, eye. She has never seen anyone with two swollen eyes. As she gets on the bus, she wonders what will happen if the passengers gang up on...
THE SCREAMS IN THE SILENCE by Samuel Oladele
THE SCREAMS IN THE SILENCE by Samuel Oladele The get-together venue was two-hundred kilometers away. Slouched in the front passenger seat in Michael's Audi, I pictured my obituary glued on every wall in my street. GONE TOO SOON. Perhaps I was seconds to my obituary...
HOW BODIES BECOME FLUID by Ibe Obasiota
HOW BODIES BECOME FLUID by Ibe Obasiota Shortlist (Top Six) of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) I)Love is a verb with wings; a free verb that makes itself into a ghost; a dark spectral that walks into our midst and...
TO PULL A LION’S TAIL by Boloere Seibidor
TO PULL A LION'S TAIL by Boloere Seibidor Shortlist (Top Six) of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) Two days ago, there was another cold-blooded murder down Wellington Drive, riling up trepidation in the city.What...
THE FALLEN ANGEL by Ebeigbe Brian
THE FALLEN ANGELby Ebeigbe Brian The Fallen Angel - Second Runner-up of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) The door let loose an agonizing creak as it slowly leaned open. Crumbled paint and what he could only assume to be...
