In a bid to return to my fiction roots, I present here an old flash fiction piece I submitted to a friendly writing competition with my Nigerian friends. Seems a little apt given the present political climate in Kenya. The distance was still the same but the road had certainty changed. Stubborn potholes had borne […]
Short Fiction
From Tweet to Transaction in #JASex
It all started when a funny little sentence walked into my head last August. I promptly tweeted it, jokingly adding that I would one day use it in a story. Guess what? I did. "The things that get trapped between my teeth or my thighs are none of your business."<< A line I'm going to […]
The Best Laid Schemes of Mice and Men
Tony didn’t have much say in his life. That’s why, one day, a tall man with kind eyes, an “Amercan” accent and a matted beard was deposited at his house. Mike, his 26-year-old cousin was back from the land of the KFC and the KKK. And Tony’s mother was determined that her late sister’s son […]
Two years, three weeks, four days.
When her mind reading powers finally manifested themselves at 6:00pm, rather than report to Mistress at Headquarters, Heri made a beeline for Ly’s house. She’d been patient. Eating the food the other girls at Headquarters had whispered aided “the process”, staying close to electronic devices–-she’d smuggled in a pocket radio that she switched on, put […]
Tales of the Knight
Pavements yawn when no one’s looking. Yep. They like to stretch when ink spills across the sky and someone remembers to sprinkle twinkling lights on the blue-blackness. That’s usually around the same time when trees like to play tricks. Leaves scoop up rays of light and drizzle bits of it on their branches to make […]
Hear no evil
“It’s going to be alright, yaah…Surgery might reverse the process. I’m sure the…” I shifted my focus from his mouth to his hands as they folded, bent and cut across the air. His brown hands, like lightly toasted samosas, were firm but soft and always gentle whenever he examined me. I remember how he’d walked […]