The Woman Next Door
Told through the eyes of a neighbor, this story follows a woman living with schizophrenia. As the narrator watches her unravel and endure, she is drawn into a deeper reckoning with her own hidden fears. In the end, the woman she once pitied becomes a mirror, teaching her what it means to embrace the parts of herself she long tried to escape.
Our Mother Modesta
Modesta has spent her life shielding her family from misfortune, so when a troubling dream unsettles her, she rushes to the city to care for her pregnant daughter. Two years later, when it’s time to return home, she boards a bus and is never seen again. Her children search, but the bus seems to have never existed. As whispers spread and grief festers, Modesta begins appearing in dreams, pleading for burial. But how do you lay to rest someone you can’t find?
Kokolette
A young girl is pitted against her more attractive sister throughout her childhood. The younger sister, Okwukweka, is favoured by their mother for the attention she brings to the family and for her exceptional academic performance. When they get into university, Onyeka decides she wants to be a ‘fine girl’ like Okwukweka and recruits her equally beautiful roommate, Ugonma, to help her achieve her aim. They set off on a journey to a skin doctor who patents a mixture for Onyeka. Will the mixture give Onyeka her heart desires or will it turn her life in a different direction?
Tech Sis
A newcomer to tech attends her first industry event, unsure of herself and her place in the room. There, she meets someone whose presence forces her to confront a truth about herself she’s long avoided.
Bouncing Baby Boy
Born to a teenage mother and toughened by his grandmother’s relentless hands, Obed grows up in the heart of a bustling market, where survival is an art. He learns to bounce—through hardship, through crime, through the thin line between life and death. But when he crosses a spirit he shouldn’t have, the boy who always lands on his feet may finally take a fall he can’t recover from.
Alkaline Water
In a sleepy town, tucked away in South Eastern Nigeria, evil lurks in the background and this time, it is seeking new mothers, driving them to insanity before disappearing with them. In this story, postpartum is a metaphor for Nwanyi Mmiri, the eater of new mothers and safety pins are symbolic in Nigerian culture to protect pregnant and new mothers from evil spirits. The protagonist’s family is rocked with sorrow when her elder sister gives birth and comes home. She descends into madness, blurring the lines between reality and vivid dreams before disappearing.
Nnenne vows to get to the root of her sister’s disappearance by working in the police Force and stopping other women from falling prey? Will she be successful or be overwhelmed by the darkness that devoured her sister?
Sulphur
Mary is caught in a quiet war between faith and desire. Raised in a devout Christian community, she crafts a double life: one for Sunday mornings and another for late-night yearning.
Naked I Come
Azuka’s mind is a battlefield. Once a woman with dreams, she now swings between sanity and madness that strips her naked—sometimes in the middle of the street. Her sister, Nnedi, has spent years pulling her back from the edge, but when Azuka’s fragile grip on reality begins to slip further, their bond is tested in ways neither of them imagined. A story of mental illness, family duty, and the quiet despair of a woman searching for control in a world that keeps taking it away.
Dame En Rouge
A madam Koi Koi story reimagined, only this time, she is a spirit that fights for heartbroken and scorned women. After being heart broken by her boyfriend, a sad Nnenna sulks in bed for weeks, isolating herself from her family and friends as she licks her
wounds. She summons Lady Koi Koi as a joke, not knowing she would appear. And when she does, she asks her to deal with Emeka.
The Escapade
Two friends who had been away from the village for years returned together one dusty afternoon. Eager to relive childhood memories, they wander into the surrounding forest.
Stitches and Styles
Salome, a once-humble tailor, is on a high after rebranding herself with a new electric sewing machine and a taste for luxury. But when she forgets to sew a dress for the no-nonsense Mrs. Eke—a woman known for her sharp temper—her world spins out of control.
You Must be Mine
A woman falls in love with her unhappy boss and wishes to fill the vacuum and grant him his desires for an heir. She succeeds in using witchcraft to buy his love.
Lagos Newbie
This story is about a fresh graduate who got a job that made her move out of her parent’s house in Ibadan. She moved in with her aunt in Lagos who has a residence close to her new job. Living with her aunt was difficult, the domestic responsibilities and expectations were weighing her down and she had to search for her own place. Unknowingly, she rented an apartment haunted by ghosts.
Blue Ruins
Blue Ruins is a story about Ahachi, an outcast at Ndibe Beach, whose life changes when she meets Nkasi, a man who seems too perfect to be real. Their connection is electric, pulling her into a love that feels otherworldly—because it is. As Nkasi invites her deeper into his mysterious world, Ahachi must decide if love is worth risking everything she knows. This story is poetic, haunting, and rooted in the beauty of myth and nature.
The Shoemaker of Eko
Okiki, a determined shoemaker, escapes his father’s shadow and builds a thriving life in Lagos. But success brings new temptations, and as he strays from his path, his Orí, the guardian spirit of destiny, watches, unable to save him from himself. The Shoemaker of Èkó is a powerful tale of ambition, fate, and the choices that shape us.
When Flesh Summons
At his wife’s desperate call for vengeance, Korie, notable for his insatiable appetite, is brought back from the dead to his village to hunt down his murderers. Rooted in folklore and mystery, When Flesh Summons is a haunting tale that explores fate, justice, man’s innate thirst for vengeance, and the interconnectedness between the living and the dead.
The Smell of Dead Things
The Smell of Dead Things is a psycho-philosophical look at a young woman’s life, shaped by the traumatic impact of violent childhood abuse. After her father’s death, she struggles to build a new life. However, one night, the line between past and present spontaneously blurs, and she descends into insanity. In a fit of madness, she returns to her father's house to exorcise the evil that has clung to her. But can there be a fouler darkness than the stench of attachment? The Smell of Dead Things probes the metaphysics of trauma, individuality, and freedom.
The Bush Baby
When Fabiyi gets to know about the dreaded bush baby popularly called Egbere, he doubts its existence. But when trouble looms at home, he is forced to turn to it for help. Will he like the outcome or will it boomerang in his face?
Annihilo
He is called a witch doctor but he is more than that...
When duty calls, Ouwuo must leave the loving embrace of his wife to sort out a giant who is causing unrest in Pascha.
Will he successfully fulfill his mission and return to his wife as promised or will this be his last mission?
The Sound of Rain
Zainoebe of Sembe was not going to die—not for her king, not for her people, and certainly not for any of the never-present gods.
Hailing from the Uhuru line of Skywalkers, there are things expected of Zainoebe, like the ability to suddenly call down rain—even though it had not once rained in four years.
An unprecedented turn of events forces Zainoebe to carefully consider her options and count her costs.
But when she is confronted by a mad king, her people, and the gods themselves, Zainoebe must make one final choice to either call down rain or suffer the consequences of bearing her name.
The Sound of Rain is an age-old tale of life, love and hope, and the choices that we must all make.