HARDLUCK Automatically, everything ceased being important in Alex’s life at the appearance of Nse. Even though he’d stopped sharing important details of his life with Jojo, he couldn’t hide this one from him because it was worse than how he’d felt when considering sleeping with Miss Ukata again. Nse was like his conscience. With her, […]

SURPRISES In no time, the season of tests and term papers happened upon the newly admitted students at Uniuyo. It was shocking news to some students that they had to submit their written and typed term papers on each day of the new week, as the two week time of research, write and submit of […]

LESSONS Alex stood awkwardly to the side as he watched Sunshine apologise over and over to the man that had ordered the package he’d failed to deliver because of the Jojo debacle. The package had been ordered as a birthday gift for his wife. Alex was supposed to deliver it at the woman’s office as […]

DISTRESS Lectures had gathered momentum, school activities cropped up from all angles, from sports to social events, more customers were open to delivery services and Alex was having consistent sex with Sunshine. For some, like Jojo, it wasn’t fun, he complained most of the time. All he had to do was finish classes at about […]

DELIVERIES The sprawling house adjacent to Mama Saviour’s shop had three latest SUVs, five salon cars, four separate satellite dishes, a roof covered with solar panels and a lot of lovely flowers around the premises. The owner of the house, a man in his forties, kept really odd hours; he was mostly seen driving out […]

TURN THE TABLES “Why am I still waiting?” Miss Ukata asked mildly when both young men stood before her desk again, two weeks later; her expression was of a smug person who held all the trump cards. Jojo swallowed and glanced nervously at Alex who seemed, surprisingly, unperturbed. “I…err…” Jojo stammered when all Alex did […]

ADMISSION RUNS The gigantic edifice which was part of the University of Uyo’s main gate awed Alex and Jojo on the first day. They stood there with their mouths slightly open, staring at the emblem of the University until a security man asked how he could help them. They were directed to the admissions office […]

LOVE POSSIBLY Isaac couldn’t understand why Alex had suddenly begun hanging at his laundry shop when he wasn’t running errands for Mama Saviour. For the past two days, he had noticed that he would return from an errand and would immediately rush down to the laundry and hang there until he got called out again. […]

PANTS DOWN “You could help at my laundry shop sometimes, instead of always staying at Mama Saviour’s shop,” Isaac said, two weeks after his return. After winning two hundred and fifty thousand naira from the games he’d betted, the first thing he’d done was get a second hand android which cost ten thousand naira, got […]

EPISODE 11 – CAST AWAY It had been three days since Henry’s visit and in those days, Flora tried her utmost to seduce Alex to no avail. At first, he had claimed tiredness from walking around town with Henry. And then Flora had pounced on that, insistently asking about everything Henry had said; of course, […]

HARD NUT LIFE Bad things happen in threes. Alex had read that phrase in one of his father’s non auditing books. Right then, he was thinking the phrase was apt. He stood numb in front of Isaac’s house after knocking for close to thirty minutes and then a bothered neighbour snapped from his room that […]

TOPSY-TURVY April of 2016 rolled in and it was looking like the rainy season would never arrive since the heat was still as blistering as it’d been in January. The JAMB results had been released and the boys had made the cut off points for their different courses. It seemed though the result and the […]

FOR THE LOVE OF FRIENDS “I don’t do that any more,” Alex declared righteously. “Iyaaa!” Ekanem exclaimed disbelievingly, eyeing him with mean eyes. “Seriously, Alex, this isn’t the right time to go born-again on us,” Jojo pleaded. “This is Mathematics and English o, if we have to re-sit it, the whole village will hear about […]

HEARTBREAK Nse had left the village school. Her aunty had come for her. She was to take her WAEC and JAMB out there and immediately begin seeking for admission in prestigious schools. Alex didn’t know the whole story, like why would the wealthy aunty come for her now when Nse had been living with her […]