For you with a heart lost in a sad life, the one whose songs have been shut out from light… February 2015 He skipped to Bode’s canopy wearing a white shirt that had seen more beautiful mornings under...

When you realize that you are different from the rest, you try to think of how it came to be, you try to figure out why it is the way it is and not the way it should be. You think of what might have...

As always, she’s smiling when you see her, radiating a light you wished you possessed. She bends slightly to whisper something into the ear of a girl seated next to her. They both burst out laughing...

How we met was one of those peculiar encountersYou don’t expect much, and you got more than you expectedWe spoke and spoke, then it happenedI knew I liked you, I felt it within myselfI woke up every...

This kiss started three days ago when Ayo and I shared a handshake. Something happened when we touched skins and it lingered on after we finished greeting. Just like that, we were magnets, finding...

I saw her at the supermarket. She was standing with a group of people dancing and acting silly without caring who was looking. She was so light-skinned, hard to miss. I was amazed. I was looking at...

In hindsight, he wasn’t handsome, eloquent, or generous, and neither was he ugly, inarticulate, or stingy. He was, to put it simply, the first man to make me look in the mirror and acknowledge who I...

In the hallways of high school, Our hearts bonded like two irons in the hands of a blacksmith, Your seat beside mine, I could feel the heat of your love oozing out of you to me, You need not say it...

Many years of education and no one taught us how to love. Our parents practiced Storge love with us, but we grew up to realize that there is more to the feeling called love. For me, my first sexual...

“Ugly as fuck…” That was the last message he saw before the entire chat disappeared and he had the chance to respond or at least fake a mutual backlash to pretend he wasn’t as hot as he thought he...

The rains had just ended, and Harmattan was about to start. We had lost some boys to other institutions, and new subjects terrified others, but despite the chaos of change and uncertainty of grades...

Sheri and Faith have had a long day; they cannot wait to lay in each other’s arms. It’s difficult; pretending to the world, meanwhile, you can’t wait till you get home, to breathe, to release...

It’s your birthday and for some reason, I decided to break the silence and send you a happy birthday message. I am so sure you will ignore it. I am lazing around the house when my phone vibrates....