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​Go Time | Flash fiction | Emmanuel Okoro

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Adeosun Adams

‘One man down. I repeat one man down. Requesting backup.’

From my sitting position, my back reclined on the kitchen counter acting as a makeshift cover, I stared at my partner, Sergeant Musa. His lifeless body laid spread-eagled on the floor, the blood seeping from his temple had began to morph into a bizarre halo around his head. Even in death Continue reading →

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Clairvoyance | Picstory | Soogun Omoniyi

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Adeosun Adams

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Life Cycle | Flash fiction | Michael Larry

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Adeosun Adams

People get killed by drunks everyday across the globe. But you died young and people don’t like that. Your grandma who had died of stroke was bitter when she saw you. She was crying, she couldn’t look at you – with your head that had become a big mass of squashed bone and flesh. The dead don’t bleed.

You wanted to cry. Continue reading →

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