I am Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, a final-year medical student, and a speculative poet.Everyone who knows about the Nigerian University system must have known about the ongoing industrial strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities which has lasted for more than three(3) months now. In this regard, as a medical student who wishes to acquire data analytical skills and venture fully into Medical...

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Fiery Scribe Review is now accepting submissions for its Spring ISSUE #3 'DUST', from May 20th to June 30th.ISSUE #3 SUBMISSIONS Theme: DUST"DUST" could be a glaring allusion to man's eventual corruption—dust to dust, ashes to ashes. It could be a striking echo of vanity or defeat. And whatever interpretation you could conceive.While we want works that reflect the above, we would love to experience...

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 Fictional Café Opens Submissions for Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and PoetryDeadline: RollingThe Fictional Café, entering its tenth year, welcomes new boundary-breaking short stories, flash fiction, novel excerpts, poetry, creative nonfiction, and works in the visual and audio arts.A thousand Coffee Club members in 70 countries read our highly original ‘zine. We welcome all genres.Your work must be tasteful, original, and well written. We look...

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Never look at a reference book while doing a first draft. (A suggestion, if you'd question.)You want to write a story? Fine. Put away your dictionary, your encyclopaedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus. Better yet, throw your thesaurus into the wastebasket. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule....

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 by Elisha OluyemiPlace the truth before you;Wear a cloak of lies and hide behind it.—Anonymous THE GOD IS IN ME, and I can’t help it. Because I gave it all to him.To whomever you submit yourselves, you are slaves.But I don’t feel that way. I rather feel like the god I’ve submitted to.For I am in the God, and the God is in me.Today,...

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by Jennifer EganTry to make writing habitual.I think that if we’ve learned one thing in the last two years, it’s that we are very trainable creatures. If you’re out of the habit of writing, it feels really hard to do.And if you’re in the habit of writing it feels weird not to do it.The goal is to write regularly enough that it feels...

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Nightshade: A Crime Fiction Anthology Hullo, guys! I'm excited.😁 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗲: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝘄𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, May 6th, 2022. Congratulations to me! Congratulations to all of us!The Anthology features my 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹-𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘇𝗲—a story you MUST not miss for anything—alongside five other short crime fictions.Details Below:Publisher: IfèAdigo Company Limited. Genre: Crime Fiction BLURBNightshade, Profwic Crime Fiction Anthology Vol. 1,...

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 Crime?It's just like escaping from within the boundaries of moral restraints. The deviation from this moral factor doesn't necessarily denote aggressiveness or some dark manifestation; crime can always be innocent—especially if there is a psycho out there who doesn't hear the whispers of composure. We ourselves hear these whispers—all of us, except we are like them, the criminals, the psyschopaths, the bloody highlifes...

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by Elisha OluyemiHE WITHDRAWS HIS PALM from the dog's mane as though irritated. Seconds ago, he was chuckling as he tickled the dog and caressed its mane, the happy pet wagging its tail. But now, his gaze bores firmly at it, and his eyes are void of emotion, like one caught between good and evil.The dog returns the gaze with the most innocent...

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 Nightshade: Profwic Crime Fiction Anthology Volume IPublisher: Ifeadigo Publishing Company Limited Genre: Crime Fiction Release Date: 6th May, 2022BLURBNightshade, Profwic Crime Fiction Anthology Vol. 1, the maiden edition of anthologies by the global writing community, Prolific Fiction Writers Community, features six intriguing crime fiction short stories that will leave you breathless. Chiedu Dieyi's ‘Anita's Bullet’ pulls agents of Nigeria's Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID)...

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 by Elisha OluyemiIT BEGINS TONIGHT.  But he doesn’t know it.    So he pulls his zippers and slings a rucksack across his shoulders. He rakes a glance across the room; smiles at the litter of panties and stockings strewn over his old sofa. He grabs a few and presses them to his nose, eyes rammed shut. He is inhaling their smell. The fragrance of...

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 by Elisha OluyemiI HONOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN all things—even in murder (as some critics would tag my benevolence). But at least, that is my patients’ sole possibility of relief and a painless exit.    Today, it’s all about Bala, a colon cancer stage IV patient, bedridden, and sure to disappear in three weeks. I see him grip his belly again, face crumpled and teeth clenched,...

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by Elisha OluyemiWho can be powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods, except he first binds him?Except the invader be exceedingly mad.--Mark 3:278 MARCH, 2021ASO ROCK PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJAUNTIL NOW, PRESIDENT Garba Lai didn’t see this day coming. He didn’t see the cloudy mass hanging in leaden sprinkles about the skies. But he has always been prepared. He always...

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