Masquerades (3)
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Damilola
It has been two months since the day i bought the masks. She didn’t make it back home that night. […]
A Happy Place
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Damilola
Where the bed bugs don’t bite Where ice cream is a staple and weight scales are a taboo Where i […]
Seasons
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Damilola
When we were young and played in the sand, we would go to Mazi Mbanu’s house and like little monkeys, […]
Land of dreams…
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Damilola
‘Tu a ra ya aka…’ My mum’s sonorous voice finds me in the land of dreams. It nudges me to […]
Masquerades (2)
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Damilola
She doesn’t whisper my name anymore when we make love. I can’t even remember the last time we shared sleeping […]
Comfortable
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Damilola
Dear Okaima, Do you remember that time we went to the cinema? We had gone to see a movie we […]
Iya
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Damilola
Every Christmas, we go to the village. We go because Iya spends all year crying over the phone about how […]
Masquerades (1)
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Damilola
I didn’t want to but Nifemi said no one would find out. So I did and we got caught. Nifemi […]
Just in Case
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Damilola
I have seen them flock around you; svelte young beauties with bouncy pointed breasts, their board stomachs missing scars, thighs […]
Black Suspenders
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Damilola
It was raining when Osizemete was born. It was only fitting it would rain the day he went home. No, […]
