Abigail Chukwu
Abigail Chukwu
- African Stories
“Your Unexpected Visitor” — A Horror Story by Abigail Chukwu
It’s 11:35. You have been working all night. It just dawned on you that you have have not had your…
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The Accident
“Do you know him?” a husky voice asked behind me. I turned to look at who had asked such a…
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What Does Silence Sound Like?
It is the tum-tum sound made by the zinc on the floor outside my room window, as the last drops…
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Raindrops on a Saturday
White cars turned brown, overfilled gutters with Styrofoam plates at the forefront of the move to destroy the climate, smokes…
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Even In Death
The battle was over. He was dead. Screw the earthquake, Big Guy above always liked showing off, this was one…
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Cold Night
It was really cold last night. It didn’t rain, no. The trees behind my house made sounds that seemed like…
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Allahumdulilah
Yusuf looked at his father with disbelief in his eyes. His mother had just died, and all his father could…
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A Perfect Fairytale
You wake up late, you turn and you see a note beside you. The feeling comes up, the one that…
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5pm
Bana looked at the woman in front of her again and looked away. This woman did not seem to have…
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Mary
“Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow.…
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Hunger
The first person came down from the bus, I was not worried. It was a 15-seater bus, there had to…
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Lawal
Mom had not always been a fan of my poems. Especially the ‘step’ poem. She said it was too dark…
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Trapped
3rd floor, 11 more to go… Maybe it was his perfume or maybe it was mine, but this elevator was…
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I Broke Her
The rumours spread far and wide. Ola’s mom had died of HIV and AIDs, her father was living with it…
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Geisha
I was a boy, I was fifteen, I liked toys. Ceramic, delicate, breakable, pretty. I liked to play god with…
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Eiffel Tower
My favorite things were three—flowers, green leaves turned yellow by autumn, and travelling. Once, I saw a dead man in…
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Her, Him, Them
The first time it happened, she was six, she cried out and screamed from the hurt, till there was no…
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Dead Alive
“Why are you here?” the doctor asked her. She smiled. “Oh well, a part of my breast hurts like hell,…
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