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 each other’s gaze from across the room and bumping into ourselves in a space that was small enough for a 3-year-old […]

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 am. Except for his six-foot-two-inch frame, I ordinarily would never have looked twice at him was I to walk […]

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 but I knew you would cross limits for me, You were always ready to […]

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 experience wasn’t out of pure love; rather it was perhaps out of loneliness. I look back […]

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 to come, I couldn’t let go of the thrill and excitement that reigned with the word “Senior”. I had just gotten […]

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 yourself from the burden of the shadow you are wearing. Sheri interns in a fashion school. Her dream is to […]