2017 has been a challenging year, hasn’t it? This has been the first full year of the Trump presidency, the year of naming and shaming sexual harassers and offenders, the year of…
Intimacy and Communication
Two, maybe three years ago, I was the biggest supporter of text messaging and all other forms of written communication. Letters, emails, DMs, tweets, you name it, I loved it. And why…
Of Friendship
After reading this Brain Pickings article, and consequently, this one, I’ve found myself intensely fascinated with the concept of friendship. I’ve always been very wary of saying the words “he/she is my friend”; in…
My Farafina Experience
I’m trying to gather my thoughts, just enough so I can write this. It’s hard; I’m thinking a thousand things. Where to start, what to tell, what to leave out? It’s all…
For When There Are No Words
Anedoche (n.): A conversation in which everyone is talking but no one is listening, simply overlaying disconnected words like a game of Scrabble, with each player borrowing bits of other anecdotes as…
How To Successfully Adult (Or At Least Fake It)
Being an adult is hard. We all know this. Being an adult is basically living with your parents (or other adultier adults), being nurtured and raised by them all your life until…
My Father’s Love.
Hello Story Tellers! Welcome to another installment of the Parent Project. July is drawing to a close and with it, the Parent Project, which will wrap up at the end of this…
Burnt Stew
Hello Story Tellers! Welcome to another installment of the Parent Project. Tell me, how many times were you beaten as a child? In what variety of ways? Was it with normal cane…
Call for Submissions – July
Hello Story Tellers! Welcome to Stories NG – the home of Nigerian stories. If you are a constant visitor, I hope you’ve enjoyed our previous themed months, especially Portraits, the web of…
How GreyVerse Claimed His Love
It’s easy to go down on one knee and say “I love you woman, will you marry me?” 19th April 2013 was the day I said mine. I had planned to do…