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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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 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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 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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"Look around. Stories. Everything. They're about us. They're in us. We're in them... And we are them. Stories."                                                           —LishaA friend told me about how she's beginning to see practically everything around her as potentials for...

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by Elisha OluyemiImperfection 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 together....

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