The Stories that Matter

A God you can explain fully is not a true God you should worship. Today is one of the days that many Catholic Priests are very careful in their preaching...

Love is like water It sweeps everything in its way It touches the gist of our tangential points One can relate to the future because of love Let it be...

The Matrimony has once again led to a bloodshed! This is not a night before Exodus, Yet our children’s blood were used to paint the doorpost of the Lord’s house;...

I remember love and life. Please, just hear me out. I have many “pasts” that I can recount for you, but there was this one time… Inequity is where the...

It was a glorious, colorful autumn. We’d just left the coffee shop. When we walked by, she had giggled and pulled me inside, saying, “C’mon, let’s be basic white girls...

I buttoned the overcoat round her shoulders. I plunged into her webs of vapour In between her hamas Which by these times formed veils between the trees.   As she...

But why is it that women always seem to think that Valentine’s Day is only about them? Last year, she had crush on me, and she was sure I must...

Long story cut short, Oh yes he broke my heart. I’m really trying to cut the long story short, But I can’t. Whispers from the unknown inside my ears. Words...

I felt my phone buzz before I heard it ring; I knew who the caller was, I never changed the tune. She wanted me to come over for dinner, She...

In recent times, Nigerian citizens have been travelling out of the country for one thing or the other. Those who have the financial wherewithal have landed themselves in America, Asia,...

1. Love is not irrationally jealous in the name of passion. That’s not passion. That’s distrust. Love is not explosive anger. Love is not ownership. Love is not force. 2. Love is...

I sit in a corner For hours I stare I’m cold I admit Broken and lost I crave normal Yet I can’t seem to find it Like mist it fades...

Thoughts of you caress my self being, In your planet I drill the whole thing, Alive I rail in your heart, Yet to no dispersion I stroll in your heart....

I am a big boy now and I know women like I know ABC I’ve seen all shapes and sizes and well I know what I love when I see...

For the first time In a long time I murdered a woman in cold blood I looked straight in her eyes to aim her soul And openly, genuinely and heartedly...

She never knew l existed But there is not a single post Of hers I ever missed and hearted She was just a walking piece of art Her marveling beauty...

To monish, yes they did To Harken, l never did I consoled myself that l Still could lead even if l end up limping. Conquering was the norm. Now hers...

With this silence, My heart stops functioning, My hand shivers to clasp a pen of art. My mind goes blank! What can I write about, When all agree to be...

Maybe his parents are dead, Maybe his parents are alive But have nothing to live for. Daily, he walks the tender streets; On his head – a tray sits comfortably,...

This story is part of the Claire Romantic Series. “She couldn’t bear the weight of his dream when hers was nowhere to be found.” All my life, I never really dreamt...

Faith, if you can believe it, falls something Like something else falls, like fill in the blanks, Like it isn’t already loaded, what we’ve all Thought at one time or...

We’re not sure you caught that, your Death, your breath, the bobber still On the surface, all hands on all decks, Under the gable you’ll never get wet, Slabs of...

After Nell Irvin Painter the body pushes sutures               to surface by isolating and strangling the foreign material            ...

This short story is participating in Write Story from Picture India 2012 – Short Story Writing Competition. “ Hi, Heard that you are coming to India in a few days.. It’s...

She cut a piece from my heart and picked it by inserting the tip of the blade of a long knife. Very delicately she straightened the knife to carry the...

This short story became SPIXer (Most popular story) on 19 Nov 2011 Life had changed for me. I never realized it. Moonlight walk changed into late night strategy workshops. Candlelight dinner turned...

It was the hunter’s first time outside Montana. He woke, stricken still with the hours-old vision of ascending through rose-lit cumulus, of houses and barns like specks deep in the...

Each long-term marriage has its own secret to success, and hearing tips from others may inspire you to find your own. No marriage is perfect.  Every couple is different, and...

I arrived with my wife Anne at the International airport in the evening and we learned that a flight to Canary was departing in one-and-a-half hours.  I have never had any...