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.
BORN AGAIN by Tunji Akande
BORN AGAIN by Tunji Akande Born Again - First Runner-up of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) My mother screamed nine times in one night, drawing fistfuls of her hair, cursing God, Eve and the earth that produced the...
AYOMIDE by Nneoma Mbalewe
AYOMIDE by Nneoma Mbalewe Ayomide - Winner of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) My body craves water but I have none to give it. I have never stayed this long without water. It’s been forty-five hours or so and I really...
SHIFT, LET HER FAINT by Joseph Olamide Babalola
SHIFT, LET HER FAINT by Joseph Olamide Babalola She is in a taxi, almost reaching home, fingers caressing her old Android with screen cracks the semblance of the world map. Normally, other things being equal, this is Nigeria, SMS wishes should have started dinging...
JOG IN THE RAIN by Carl Terver
JOG IN THE RAINby Carl TerverShe saw the new pair of trainers in the cupboard, fine white things wrapped in a transparent bag. Only, the size was smaller. She knew Dami jogged every morning because she had been waking up beside him these days. Dami was a quiet guy, in...
THE HOUSE CALLED JOY by Chizoma Emeka Joshua
THE HOUSE CALLED JOY by Chizoma Emeka Joshua The house called joy - Winner of the 2018 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) What you have has a name. You are sure if you entered a bus from your house at Ajah and stopped at the...
THE SKIN OF OTHER WOMEN by Chukwuebuka Ibeh Leonard
THE SKIN OF OTHER WOMEN by Chukwuebuka Ibeh Leonard The skin of other women - First Runner-up of the 2018 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) Stay away from men who peel the skin of other women, forcing you to wear them. -Ijeoma...
ANEESAH by Sobur Olalekan
ANEESAH by Sobur Olalekan Aneesah - Second Runner-up of the 2018 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) When I had my first daughter, I saw Aneesah in my sleep for seven days. Sometimes she was a child of six or seven, fashionably...
CRIMSON by Uche Osita
CRIMSON by Uche Osita October 2008 Adaeze, Do you remember the way I used to hold your hand? Do you recall how I kissed you the day you told me that your father had finally left your mother? How tender our lips; rubbing off the loss that you knew could only be stayed...
Imole by Olakunle Ologunro (1st Position – Flash Fiction Category)
Imole by Olakunle Ologunro (1st Position - Flash Fiction Category) Flash Fiction Category 1st Position - Imole by Olakunle Ologunro 1. Here you are, on a mat in your mother's small, dark living room, wet with your own sweat, burning with an interminable fever....
Racing Stars by Okhuosami Umar (2nd Position – Flash Fiction Category)
Racing Stars by Okhuosami Umar (2nd Position - Flash Fiction Category) 2nd Position - Racing Stars by Okhuosami Umar For as long as I can remember, my mother had two wishes; to hold my hand on my wedding day and marry me off well- preferably to Abubakar; our...
Let the Day Break by Chukwuebuka Ibeh (3rd Position – Flash Fiction Category)
Let the Day Break by Chukwuebuka Ibeh (3rd Position - Flash Fiction Category) 3rd Position - Let the Day Break by Chukwuebuka Ibeh Today, your wife would kiss you at the doorway, a firm press of her lips against yours, lingering and unsure, and then her tongue...
WHISPERING TREES AT THE CEMETERY by Chinweokwu Ukwueze
WHISPERING TREES AT THE CEMETERY by Chinweokwu Ukwueze It was mid-year in Nsukka when the clouds merged with the earth to become one. The brown soil of Nsukka had become muddy and clumpy, sticking to the shoes. During this period of the year, the skies were always...
