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Deborah Anom... Romance

Imani's Story

Imani's story unfolds during a meeting between a writer and a young woman who shares her story of love, loss, and redis...

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Weirdo 💙💙 Thriller

PATRICIA

Driven by desperation, Patricia ignores a severe weather warning to meet Demola for a "quick money" opportunity in Nyany...

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Weirdo 💙💙 Thriller

Trauma Code: A Happy Ending or Not

Life doesn't always go as planned, Or Does it? Follow Ron on her journey to discover Life and it's dealings.

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Dike Ekejiub... Thriller

OJUELEGBA

A supernatural adventure featuring Chiadi Nwogu, also known as The Dibia - a modern day mystic practitioner and interces...

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Weirdo 💙💙 African Culture

Unpredictable

Unpredictable Mustafa Judging by how hard the Country is and even worse for young promising youths like him, Tall D...

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Dike Ekejiub... Thriller

Stay On Line

When you receive a phone call at work that threatens your life; when the slightest deviation from the caller's instructi...

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Dike Ekejiub... Historical Fiction

Celestial

Deep inside the forests of Esie town in South-West Nigeria lies a sacred grove filled with hundreds of soapstone statuet...

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Weirdo 💙💙 Fantasy

The World We Didn't Know Existed

Life is meant to be simple, planned and free and it was, until Him, A Creature I would never forget and he keeps calling...

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Deborah Anom... Romance

Imani's Story

Imani's story unfolds during a meeting between a writer and a young woman who shares her story of love, loss, and redis...

107 reads Read more
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Weirdo 💙💙 Thriller

PATRICIA

Driven by desperation, Patricia ignores a severe weather warning to meet Demola for a "quick money" opportunity in Nyany...

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