Life Lessons from Stories

Enjoy this new short story series Chapter 7 Finger. “What is she looking for at this time of the night, for God’s sake?” “If I were you, I wouldn’t take this ride. This woman looks all shade of trouble.” “I need the money for the trip. I need to pay back the cooperative loan I

Enjoy this new short story series Chapter 6 Fantasy Adio’s nose still hurt, but not as much as it did three days earlier. The pain was so excruciating that he hadn’t realized that he had wet his jeans until he got to the roadside pharmacy. The same one that the attendant with the humongous breast

Motunrayo is writing her first online published work and hopes to write her own book some day. Just like daddy! Once upon a time, there lived a happy little family of 2 children, a twin – a boy and a girl, and their single mother. Her husband died before her children were born and so

Enjoy this new short story series Chapter 5 Adultery Adio eyes darted between his fuel gauge and the street. The perennial scarcity of petrol, the most important resource for his business, had turned into a quarterly reoccurrence. Long queues for vehicles hustling to gain entry into fuel stations meant that the traffic along most transport

Enjoy this new short story series Chapter 4 Blood Adio was oblivious to the blaring sirens and flashing lights of the two ambulances that sped past him in the opposite direction. He was focused on reaching the pick-up point for his next rider promptly. His schedule had been slightly delayed by the stop at the

Enjoy this new short story series Chapter 3 Raunchy It was 2am in the morning. There’s a certain level of tiredness that equates to illness; Adio’s tired body was inching closer to breaking down, but his brain kept on going as if it was on some Olympian overthinking sprint. He had worked three straight days,

Enjoy this new short story series Chapter 2 Crazy Adio’s passenger for the night was starting to irritate him. He had picked him up in front of a popular nightclub in Victoria Island but soon regretted it the moment the young man eased himself into his car. The young man’s glazed eyes suggested he was

Enjoy this new short story series Chapter 1 Gossips His rider showed no sign of irritation when Adio wheeled the car to a halt by the roadside kerb. It took him all of twenty-four minutes to arrive at the pick-up point. He had been driving around roads on the island avoiding routes that meandered into

Published May 1, 2022 on The Punch newspaper A civil engineer and creative writer, Akin Akingbogun, speaks to OLADIMEJI RAMON about his craft Tell us a bit about yourself. Akin Akingbogun is a 42-year-old civil engineer, who has openly professed to be 13 years younger to fit the narrative for his online persona. I am

Published May 4, 2024 on Business day newspaper Title: Dreams from Yesterday Author: Akin Akingbogun Publisher: Winepress Year of Publication: 2023 Number of Pages: 179 Category: Short Stories While the cover of “Dreams from Yesterday” may not fully convey the depth and excitement of Akin Akingbogun’s collection of 14 short stories, within the book, Akingbogun showcases his talent as a playful

The story nears its end  Final Chapter Chapter 16 Tara felt better, but the annoying pain in her foot kept her in bed. She was starting to rouse from sleep when the door into her room opened gently and a woman cradling a small bag in her arm walked in. The woman was past her

The story nears its end  Chapter 15 Her father That evening Christiana was convinced that she had to end it all. She had been walking for three hours non-stop through the busy highway and the arterial roads within the Lagos mainland. Her destination was unknown. Her legs kept asking her to rest, to find somewhere

The story nears its end  Chapter 14 The Mansion Tara had always wanted to visit the house her mother lived before she married her father.  She approached her father with her finding from his room that afternoon. She walked up to him while he had dinner with the beach bottle in one hand and a

The story of fate and destiny Chapter 13 The Ghost Dad 1977 Christiana lived in her head, to a large degree most people do. But it was most pronounced with her. She wanted to be as successful as her only sibling, her brother. He excelled in virtually everything he started. His term results in secondary

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This story is just unfolding Chapter 12 The Beach bottle Tara stopped using her medication the week after she left the wellness centre. She found the cocktail of pills irritating and could barely swallow the tablets even after she drowned them in bottled water. She hated the after-taste because it was somewhat bitter, but that

The story of fate and destiny Chapter 11 Back to the start Tara eyes opened to a room that blurred like an old painting yet welcomed her with the hum of a central air conditioning unit and the scent of lavender that was spat out in a hiss from air freshener device somewhere in the

The story of fate and destiny Chapter 10 The Mansion In one moment, Tara’s eyes welcomed the sunlight as it bloomed and bathed her in a rosy glow through the crack in her curtains and in another, she was toweling her rich dark and wet skin dry before jumping into her underwear and pulling up

The story of fate and destiny Chapter 9 Tara’s kitchen had been begging for attention for many days. Unwashed plates, with leftovers dried and caked up from the heat, were heaped together in her small kitchen basin. That was not the scene Tara had anticipated when she got into the apartment slamming the door behind

The story of fate and destiny Chapter 8 The Mother It started to rain. Tara was grateful for the rain, earlier in the haze of the afternoon heat, she could feel her dress starting to cling to her back in places while she sat in her car. Tara used to find sweating so gross, especially