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PHILOPHOBIA SHORT STORY by Grace Ochigbo The long awaited day split open like it’s not the same one Ojoma had been looking forward to – her whole life? Yeah. Maybe. Probably. It feels like a lifetime already since a year ago when she first met Joshua; Josh, as his friends …

NOMA’S DREAM – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE SIXTEEN The house looks completely deserted and even though everything is still in its usual position; the size of the rooms and appliances are not altered at all. However, there’s a difference in the atmosphere, a difference in the air filling the house. There’s …

NOMA’S DREAM – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE FIFTEEN “It’s not what you think, Honey.” Prof Akpa finally finds his voice. He thinks about love and consequences for a minute before moving slowly towards the door where his wife is standing, frozen. Her eyes dead with fear and he knows better than …

NOMA’S DREAM – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE ELEVEN   Patrick couldn’t believe who his eyes is seeing. A yawn escapes his mouth and he wipes his eyes with the back of his left palm. Perhaps, the early morning sunrise shining brightly on his eyes is affecting his horizon of vision. He …

NOMA’S DREAM – Grace Ochigbo ONE One of the 4 inches’ heels, particularly the one on her left foot, slips off course. She’d stepped on a deep sandy surface, making her left leg hit a little stone right in front of her. The stone is little, but big enough to …

This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE TWENTY-TWO As the police officer led Caleb into the visiting room, he couldn’t help but reminisce over how life had turned into something else in barely three months. Perhaps he should have continued with getting married to Unekwu at the time they’d …

This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE TWENTY. Fear gripped Susan on that grounded position for several minutes. She scanned her eyes through the multi-spaced iron gate leading into Angela’s house, especially to the security man’s house from where they’d gotten a once-dipped-in-blood knife. Many thoughts about how one …

This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE FIFTEEN “Please sign here, ma’am.” Joy Oguche reluctantly signed the document in the folder. The man who appeared to be in his mid-fifties yet smartly dressed closed the folder in his hands before handing a letter over to her. She accepted it, …

This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE FOURTEEN   The view around him went out of focus as Caleb tried to get a grasp on his mind that was running all over the place. It was like the whole world came to a standstill for several seconds, or so …

This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE THIRTEEN Estelle hurried after Eneojo. She was fuming, therefore stamping her legs hard against the interlocked walkway. Her face was creased in a light frown, roughening the skin on her forehead. “Why do you always do this, Eneojo?” she held back his …