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StoryHood

StoryHood

Where stories imitate life and where they sometimes do not, but never fail to thrill anyone who loves to read.


I Had To Do It: Short Story

18 Jul 2025 13 minute read 0 comments AserC

Footsteps rattled in the building very close to ours, and seemed to be headed for the room in which I was just about taking my pound of flesh. Then I stopped to wonder if anyone had discovered my plot, and was rushing in to stop me. Sudden rush of ad...

Longings Of A Caged Love. The Clash Of Love And Tradition. African Fiction - Part 1

18 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments AserC

An African star apple tree stood at the center of the vast compound that lay sprawled in clusters of thatched mud houses, some bigger than others. The biggest, inhabited by Amanze when he lived. It was a night of vast silence and the gigantic barn of...

I was A Big Fool : Short Story

17 Jul 2025 5 minute read 0 comments AserC

I know what they can do. I know they will come after me. They would not be truly who they are, brutal and merciless, if they don’t. They surely will. But I surely do not care, at this point in my life that I have found a goldmine. Oh… Can I ever leav...

Hard Times : Short Story

17 Jul 2025 8 minute read 0 comments AserC

Hard times lay ahead, but he didn’t know it. He was so optimistic, full of hope that all would be well in his life after his graduation from university. Dimeji, a Nigerian graduate of the University of Jos, in Nigeria, had to go for his one year nati...