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.
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?