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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by Elisha Oluyemi SOILED WHITE ||Quivering alone in the murk,Letting out pain in warm drips,While making to deliberateWhether to live or wither.The throes of that distant nightMelts into the wind's grim howl.Palpitating with terror,The weak's soul drifts into mess.Faint echoes from forced struggles,Like daggers, pierce through one's core, Impairing the mind to dregs,Eroding the soul of worth.Prudently conserved maidenheadMade relinquished by some vain brute.Memories...

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by Elisha Oluyemi WHAT REDEMPTION EXISTS FOR A VICTIM who murdered their saviour? Just hell! Judas clenched his teeth, his lips compressed, as he tried to force back a groan. He stuck fingers into his eardrums to stop himself from hearing the frequent yelling from the crowd: "Die now! Or save yourself! You're the son of God! Come down the cross! You die!...

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by Elisha Oluyemitell it on the hills and peaks / what has made the crackers crack the night / what has caused the birds to chirp a tune / what has chiselled a smile up our facesup till four hours and two the other night / it reeked of burning / of tempests and of / darker shades of red and grey which...

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IMPERFECTION REMAINS AN INHERENT trait of man, and it reflects in diverse areas of his interest. Sometimes it's realised through a personal perspective, sometimes through some outsider's assessment. In many cases, what a certain outsider tag perfect is condemned by another. And one is left questioning the real nature of their results.     You stumble on a story idea and begin to piece things...

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