Stories
Discover fiction and creative stories from African writers across the continent and diaspora. Read new voices, familiar forms, and work in any language.
- 1 Double Life. Double Pressure.
- 2 27 years of echoesMs P
The mirror in my hallway is twenty-seven years old. It’s older than the memory of his face, which I only know from a handful of fading photographs where he looks young, vibrant, and eerily like me.I stood in front of that mirror today, adjusting my collar, feeling that familiar, gnawing ache in my chest.
- 3 7 Children, 1 Graduate
- 4 ran away on my wedding day & don't feel bad about it.
- 5 Mile 1 Silence
- 6 The Space Between Us
The bed was big, but the space between Amara and her husband, Sammy, felt like an ocean. Every morning, she woke up to the same routine: the gentle glow of his phone, the soft taps of his thumbs. She knew he was sending good morning wishes—just not to her. She lay right beside him, the mother of his child, and felt as invisible as the air.
- 7 The Unbroken Path: Sabira's Second ChanceMs P
Life
- 8 TOXIC
- 9 Confusion18+
I'm pregnant and it seems not to be boyfriends baby
- 10 Family Ties
- 11 Street na plugTabi John
- 12 The Regret Part 2· 2 parts
- 13 Split SecondMilson
- 14 Kwasa Kwasa18+
I turned to dive in bed and just sleep it out then I heard the door lock. I turned around and saw her removing her blouse as she came towards me. I was frozen but I definitely wanted to see where this was leading to.
- 15 The Story of Togetherness
- 16 Happy Disappointment
- 17 The Regret18+
- 18 The Neighbour's SecretMalico