My Rights, My Future

Who is the girl child? The girl child is a female human being who is below the age of eighteen years, which I am. As a human being, I should have the basic entitlements to human rights and control of my future but I am unjustly being deprived of my basic entitlements.
Folakemi Onigbinde

The Death of the Angry Seer

Here lies the body of the angry seer Whose heart we broke without a gun to our heads Here lies the custodian of our feelings Both past and present
Eden Star

The Push and Pull of Avoidant Love

Avoidant attachment is weird. Because what do you mean I’m pulling away because I love you so much? And yet, that’s exactly what it feels like sometimes.
Osas Isaacs

Journey Beyond

It had been four days since Odion buried her daughter. Four days since the house fell into that unbearable silence, too heavy to be called peace, too sharp to be called quiet.
Osas Isaacs

My Deepest Apologies

Since the beginning of time, theres always some pathetic man I gave up my personhood for. Always a new loser to mark the beginning of an era and the end of one.
Anonymous

Fragments of Tayo

There’s a room in Ada’s apartment she never enters anymore. It’s not locked, there’s no police tape, no official reason, just an invisible weight behind the door.
Osas Isaacs