Few Are Roaming

A collection of short stories

A woman unravelling in ways her society has never seen, and doesn't know how to face. Romance that curdles into horror. A girl watching her faith collapse, and love rise in its place—or so it seems. Fifteen short stories exposing the madness woven into our homes, our relationships, and the upside-down world we have quietly come to accept.

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Joy, Pineapples and you
Deborah Adeniyi Deborah Adeniyi

Joy, Pineapples and you

Wunmi's dull and lonely life jolts awake when a dispatch rider delivers a mysterious book present to her workplace. The moment she flips the book open, she knows nothing about her will ever remain the same again.

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Welcome to Mama Naza’s Salon
Chisom Benedicta Nsiegbunam Chisom Benedicta Nsiegbunam

Welcome to Mama Naza’s Salon

Mama Naza's Salon is about to be demolished alongside the other stalls in Onitsha Market, but not before spilling all the gossip it has collected over the years. The juiciest of all concerns the salon's three attendants, Nelo, Samty, and Amaka, whose tangled love lives are enough to keep you entertained through your entire visit.

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Somtochukwu
Short Story Prisca Isioma Aniemeke Short Story Prisca Isioma Aniemeke

Somtochukwu

Somtochukwu’s parents reluctantly send her to secondary school with the “lazy girls” in Amankalu. When the time comes, she informs them that she has decided to go to university in Enugu, but they bitterly object. With time, their bitterness brews into disengagement until Somtochukwu decides to visit them one day. Will her parents take her in again, and, just as importantly, will she forgive them?

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