Take a break and enjoy short fiction stories. /Imagination precipitates reality./
23 Nov 2021 1 minute read 7 comments Scopeman
With me and succulents it was not love at first sight. I could not tell you what it was about them, but I never quite fancied them. This is me who as a child had dozens of plants, including a few succulents, in my little nursery at the back of our fa...
3 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
II. I slept and I saw her again, radiant and glowing. We played, we laughed, we cuddled and I felt warm. I had missed the feeling. Then we spoke, voice like silk, Jerusalem bells ringing…the sound of innocence, though slightly tempered by experience,...
31 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
Life is a moment. Hereafter is uncertain. People die of common sense, or a lack of it, one lost moment at a time. I know this because I have experienced what it’s like to lose someone, one moment at a time. This is the true story of my very great lov...
16 May 2021 4 minute read 3 comments Scopeman
Here’s a picture of Chimdinma. That opal rosary of hers was basically priceless. She kept it pinned to the inside of her bra, over her heart, at all times when she wasn’t using it. Partly for divine protection, partly out of the convenience of never...
2 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
I. He was going to propose to her. He had everything planned out. The engagement ring, the restaurant, his line; every aspect was considered and taken care of. He called her to confirm the meeting, she had tests in school the next week, but they agre...
25 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
The first time I kissed Kelechi it was unintentional. I’m not saying I did not like it eventually, but she made me do it. All the sweet words she whispered in my ear made her hips so adorable and desirable. After I kissed her, she smiled, and I knew...
21 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
It was five in the morning. A sound woke me up. I had never heard a man cry before. It sounded like an animal, trapped, and begging for freedom. I went downstairs wearing only my undersized bathrobe and my underwear beneath it. My father never smoked...
18 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
Kate was tossing and turning in bed, her tummy round and big as if a beach ball was stuffed inside. ‘Patrick’, she cried. ‘Patrick!’ she cried out louder. Amidst tired yawns and stretching he responded, ‘Yes Kate, what’s the problem?’ ‘I think the b...
17 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
He would beat her for the most trivial of reasons. If breakfast was not ready by 7a.m every day, except on weekends, then she had served trouble for herself. He would take out his belt, the one he never wore, and swing it this way and that. When he’s...
15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Scopeman
As soon as he hung up the phone, Kirigi knew that he had to get moving, there wasn’t much time before people began to hear the news. The Head of State had just died. They were going to announce that he died of internal bleeding caused by the rupture...
