Creative Writing

Let me tell you a story. One Friday evening of last month, I was rounding up my things, getting ready for a quiet weekend when a call came in. It was Osarieme calling, the Business Manager of Value chain in Benin City (the team that sits on the same floor with my team.) The conversation went like this; Osarieme: Hello, …

My colleagues are all married. They have one common mission- to get me to walk down the aisle soonest! One good day, I sat in front of my second line supervisor. I was expecting us to go straight to discussing the document I needed him to approve but I got asked a question I wasn’t expecting. ‘Bros, when are you …

Some say that pain of the heart is the worst kind to experience. There is no surgery, no medicine, no band-aid that will truly minimize the suffering. That dull, chronic pain feels like it is with you every where you go. It’s at the core of your thoughts, it haunts you right before you go to sleep — it feels …

Last week Sunday I woke up to the news on twitter about Toke Makinwa’s cheating husband. I won’t go into the insensitive trash people were posting. Social media has given opportunity for silly people to air their unintelligent opinions. We get it’s our thing to joke about bad situations in the county but still, not everything should be taken as a joke …

Before becoming president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was a respected lawyer in Illinois. One day a criminal came to him. ‘I would like to ask you to defend me’, said the man. Lincoln, who had a sneaking suspicion of the kind of person he was dealing with, replied with the question: ‘Are you guilty?’ ‘Of course I’m …

Disclaimer: This is not a Valentine post or anything of sort. #Np: last kiss – Taylor swift I met someone whom I am going to refer to as Summer. After suffering loneliness post the break up in December all through January, fate blessed me with a taste of magic. Though from the very start I knew it wasn’t going to …

That feeling when you are so happy but then deep within, you know that it won’t last forever. I was on vacation in November. It was fun and peaceful. I had enough time to relax and my bae was with me then. All was perfect and nice. December came along with the cheating discovery and inevitable break up. Ended up …

They say in every relationship, one person always loves more… Kinda sucks when you realize you are that person, right? You feel dumb when you realize the other isn’t really as into the whole ish as you are. We all know most times the beginning of relationships are always sweet. The constant thinking of each other, frequent communication and meetings. …

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump out of the pit …

Is it possible to know right from the very first meet that you’d definitely fall so deep in love with someone? Maybe it’s a sudden attraction you feel, and you know if you continue it’s going to develop into something so strong. Of course there are plenty of things to consider before going into something serious with someone, factors that’ll …