Tag "Family"

Series (Fiction) 24 Comments

WHORE Of BABYLON (Episode 7)

The neighbourhood is eerily quiet as the three of us file into Amobi’s apartment. It is a two-bedroom flat in a serene part of Gariki. The inner decor has an

The Happenings 4 Comments

Porn Star Colby Keller’s mother wanted to shoot him (and herself) after he came out

Adult film star Colby Keller went ahead and made Nico Tortorella cry during the most recent episode of the actor/model’s podcast The Love Bomb. Things started to get personal when

Our Stories 11 Comments

The Closet

The closet is a place where you go to hide your demons. Not necessarily to hide from people but to hide from a certain type of people. Essentially, I mean

Our Stories 45 Comments

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE

My story begins when I got home after graduation. It was as though a discussion of my happily married life after graduation had been a topic for the roundtable. Just

James' Journal 12 Comments

IBK’s JOURNAL (Entry 15)

December 24 So I’m home for Christmas. I haven’t been home for a while, even though I’d love to be. But in between my hectic school work and having to

Series (Fiction) 8 Comments

WHORE Of BABYLON (Episode 4)

When I let myself into the compound, I release breath I didn’t know I was holding at no sighting of my mother. I do not have the fortitude yet to

Series (Non-Fiction) 18 Comments

K’osidim n’obi (Entry 5)

So a few months ago (this would be the period immediately after I was outed to mum), I got a call from an aunt of mine. I hadn’t heard from

Series (Fiction) 2 Comments

BEAUTIFUL SINNERS (Episode 9)

“Oh wow, he is so cute,” Kuddus cooed when I settled beside him, with my baby brother in my arms. My boyfriend was right. The little bundle staring up at

Fiction 33 Comments

THE CHILDREN OF THE NOTHING

She sat on the brown upholstered couch, her favorite spot in the old duplex home. A portrait of her family was in her slightly arthritic right hand, and her phone

Editor's Desk 47 Comments

DECLAN MY PAST, ME MY PRESENT

Oftentimes, I’ve had people wonder out loud to me about how alike me and Declan Odum from my series, Love and Sex in the City, are. They have asked if