Fiction – Mikeinioluwa

Of Marriage and Babies and Bills and PTA Meetings…

OF MARRIAGE… She is walking elegantly. She is walking with the confidence of a queen and the boldness of a lion. Her hair is golden,

The doors in Illidongtin castle were enormous and noisy. They were made of oak, fine oak that had been gotten from the forests in Africa;

CHISOM. He ran down and kept on running. It was as though if he should stop, he would be drawn back by the mountain. He

Bisi dropped to the ground and did not rise again. She did not faint. She did not fall to death. She just did not have

DAY THREE Bisi remained with his body for-ever. She would not leave, not even when Akin called her. She knelt by the lifeless pound of

At first, it did not seem like a big deal to Bisi. She just turned around and returned to where she lay beside Akin. But

DAY TWO. 8 P.M. Their second night in the wild did not go well. They had spent their first night in the rain, running around

DAY TWO. 8:00 A.M. “What do you mean we are on the other side of the mountain?” Bukunmi asked in shock. She did not

DAY TWO. 5 A.M. They walked on in silence, not speaking to one another. They had been descending the mountain for what seemed like days

He did not die. The small boy, he did not die. David kept on descending, keeping his eyes on the boy as he rolled down.