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The Whole Foods where Justin works is a block from the beach, close enough to smell it. Apart from the rusting cars in the parking...

Name: Derrick Oduagbon
Subject: Literature-In-English
Teacher: Sister Agnes-Mary Onyeoma
Assignment: Book Report for “An Introduction...

As the last of the twentieth century wound down, the world prepared itself for the inevitable mass hysteria known colloquially...

Darius sells three pocket robots on the first Tuesday of October, and another three on Wednesday. At this rate he'll be able to...

Narrated by Chris Lester

I’ve ferried two hundred and twenty-one souls across the river of death, and I can already tell my two-hundred-and-twenty-second...

Today, in a small, quiet room near the centre of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, I went into the cold darkness of sleep...

Do not go out to the dunes, the Chief says to
Isiuwa. You’d do well not to awaken the wrath of the whistling gods.

This does...

Narrated by Erica Hastings

When the dog dies, she doesn’t know she is dying. You shouldn’t feel sorry for her. To her, life lasts...

Narrated by Brea Grant

When Amelia turned fourteen, everyone assured her that she’d find her fairy soon. Almost all girls did...