Author’s Note – Another vignette from my Yoruba pantheon-inspired project (if you missed out on previous vignettes, The First Journey and The Seven Cycles of Peace, click here and here)! "HOLY GHOST... FIRE! HOLY GHOST... FIRE!!" From the floor where she had been forced to kneel for nearly an hour, Mia's eyes were fixed ahead, her… Continue reading THE EMANCIPATION OF MIA
The characters, events, and situations depicted in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or events is purely coincidental. This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment purposes only. # …my destructive side has grown a mile wide And I question myself again: what it is ‘bout… Continue reading WHAT IT IS ‘BOUT MEN
True confession – I am the laziest of writers. I have always read, with no small envy, accounts of established writers who have a clear, defined schedule for their writing blocks – they wake up, settle down in that special corner where their pristine workstation is set up, and begin typing tidily at the laptop… Continue reading Exploring Worlds via Words
In the Acknowledgements section of Once Upon Our Childhood, I mention that my first draft was written when I was fourteen, but I don't expatiate on why. I had fallen in love with many of the books I read in the past decade, African Lit included, but something salient was missing that I only realize… Continue reading WRITING OUOC…
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