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The Good Friends When the planets gathered again, they didn't expect the shocking story told by old sage, Earth. It was a tale dripping with fear, adventure, tragedy, and most importantly a lesson in family values and friendships.

At Sea Without You When the planets gathered again, they didn't expect the shocking story told by old sage, Mother Earth. It was a gripping allegorical tale dripping with fear, pride, deceit, distrust, and most importantly lessons in values of great friendship and relationships in society. In this story, Wiley Canis Coyote and Bard Taxus Badger found common grounds for their uncommon friendship until arrogance and pride fed their egos to fall...

The Good Friend Mother Earth, the old sage, gathered planets under the moon, and told a shocking story. It was a tale dripping with fear, adventure, and most importantly a lesson in family values and friendships.

There seems no way out of combusting in laughable moments, when the torched cultured cabin of Father Thomas' priestly life spirals, counterpoised and flamed by betraying hypocrisies, swarming illusions, frictional poverty, and gossiped pejoratives. Thomas thought the question was, what gives, his oath or heart? But maybe the more accurate question is, when Otessa, a passionate woman desperate for his love wants him, oath, or heart, which will ...

At Sea Without You (Illustrated) When the family of our galaxy gathered again, they didn't expect the shocking story told by old sage, Mother Earth. It was a gripping allegorical tale dripping with fear, pride, deceit, distrust, and most importantly lessons in values of great friendship and relationships in Guild. In this story, Wiley Canis Coyote and Bard Taxus Badger found common grounds for their uncommon friendship until arrogance and p...

Liberty of Promises The forces of prejudice find foothold in a close-knit rural community when trust between Chike and Kuti breaks down by a leaked secret. Kuti's frantic pursuit of personal happiness and their long life of friendship dims fated. Do mysterious powers sway outcomes of humankind promises?

Wura: The Fabric of Affection Throughout her life, Wura faced several adversities and farrago of resentments, some occasioned by unfavorable fortune, her own poor judgment or heart choices. But a recent note left at her doorstep may lead to blackmail and the destruction of her last epistolary hold on love. To what extent would this middle-aged now respectable community librarian woman go to save the life of a child of passion, in her past l...

In 18th century Britain, Grant Sharp, a passionate lawyer, plans to blow the whistle on the British and the Church establishment in his passion to stop the British and Colonial ships involved in slave trade. How does he navigate this path if Lord Palmerston, 2nd Viscount, the Chairman of the Board of Trade, popular among the rich and political class, is the benefactor of Isabella Fryer, Grant's future life partner? Join me in London blowing wh...

Force Without Shadow One must become like the adaptable squirrel, who intelligently zigzags to escape predators, bury food a foot deep or pretend to do so fooling thieves, and remain to complete its race of survival in life. It seems happiness can't be achieved without daring enterprise. Olamoshu Olaniyonu, an aspiring creative writer, must overcome poverty, fears, and wiles of pretensions if he is to achieve his writerly potential and protect...

In the middle of a nascent civil war, the ancient history of attraction between white reverend fathers and beautiful black nuns, if unabated, could prove fatal to the message of the Catholic church. Sister Catherine, (daughter of a traditional Ifa worshipper) struggled with the voice of cross and that of man. She must prove if chastity is the will of the Supreme or imposition of a religious few imitating God of love! In this colonial setting, ...

It is mild to say, Jack Hill Brittlemind, skilled cartoonist, and Showrunner for WTZ Network, is ambitious. He wants to become the best network manager and enjoy the privileged world of Hollywood and his Stingray Corvette. He didn't factor in his distractors, backbiters, and troublemakers, some who hold power to sway his career in the film industry. There is a price to pay Only this may also cost him family, love, and happiness. Remember, to ...

WHERE'S MY BUTLER? After years of struggle with marriage, where two are expected to trust, Jomiloju Rotimi Arishe, child of Omiran II, with dogged integrity tries to save a mysteriously and wickedly broken marriage to divorced Fisayo Arigidi! What was joined and later put asunder paved way to love and death. These are not without contradictions. Love starts with longing and ends bitter. Death, with sadness and leaves longing. Though, Jomiloju...

TEARS OF CASSOCKS & CONSCIENCE. Close to being fired, a frequently drunken, orphaned journalist mauled over his familial and lovelorn life. Who might his forebears be? Two things his adopted parents left him before departing for their home country, a spacious, colonial, detached home, where he grew up, and the native name his birth mother called him. It's 1972, he turned 30, that doesn't add to much, but he feels compelled to investigate the...

BREEZES OF AFRICAN NIGHTS. In many ways, I have always wanted to put together a collection of tales set on the soils of Africa. The reason is purely nostalgia. Maybe as a Yoruba Writer at heart, I still and always will long for something culturally richer, buried in the past. My grandfather used to gather us and friends under the starry African nights with its attendant gentle breezes and tell us tales. There are five short stories included i...

STRANGER WALKS OF LIFE This is my second collection of short stories. I titled it 'Stranger Walks of Life' because in many ways the words tumbled in, ahead of me, when I was writing. It was as if the story deities, I met each night, knew what I should be plotting, setting, and characterizing. Possibly sometimes without my knowledge they folded neatly points into the themes, morals and promises to my audience. All I had to do was work harder on...

THORNS OFF MY CONSCIENCE. When the powerful and influential Club 44 relocated to a British Colony in sub-sahara Africa, its prophet, Lord Ashton Smith did not foresee the cult of gentlemen will face any serious challenge of getting permanently established or its imminent extinction, not in the least from a native woman.

Dust Storms from Deserts. Isn't it a mystery, that every speck of dust from a great distance of time is a potentially part of the thick wall of storms in the present or even future? Silk light of the sky is slippery around the feet of any without clean hands but how many people are without skeletons in their closet? Cassie Betita Barto's last glimpse of the Arizona desert was more than two decades ago. She had since adopted new names, jobs, l...

FAR IN THE WINDS. When a native traveling shoe salesman is tossed into the whirlwinds. There appears only the open road to find the future. Maybe in time, the dusty trails will heal his wounds. But looking into the time-stained mirrors, he finds others who add both salt and sour to life's puddings served far in the winds. Aiyeko-ooto

London Book Review: Mothers' Silent Tears Rory. K. Galea, an Irish writer, recently won a national story prize for a touching story of mother's love. His story centered on a mother's search for her abducted daughter. Her daughter, Yvette, was traded like chattel, displayed as freak, and compromised. Imagine a haunted childhood, filled with longing, for missed home, and her vaguely remembered family or absence of freedom to be her true self or...

DISBANDED ENIGMA: A MYSTERIOUS CON Never forget, in the world of hateful politicking and religion, innocent people of all races are the commodity. In the dystopian America Robert Crayton grew in, everything is different between rich and poor. The former provincial champion and ball player nicknamed Canon, deserted by his fair-weather friends, is now a convict. Frustrated by circumstance, the angry young man's lash out led to his first-time off...