Teen Spirit
Seventeen-year-old Sally gets an opportunity to get up close and personal with her forever crush, Damilola Taylor, but the encounter is not exactly how she envisages it to be.
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PATRICIA
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Driven by desperation, Patricia ignores a severe weather warning to meet Demola for a "quick money" opportunity in Nyanya. Upon arrival, she overhears a chilling conversation revealing that she is the "fresh blood" intended for a sinister trap. Terrified, she flees the house only to be struck by a car and left for dead on the deserted road.
Shadow Work
Unyin_Writes
"I watched him die. I watched him fall into the black heart of the Lagoon. So why is he leaving me gifts made of human skin?" Five years ago, Tope was the "Golden Boy" of the Lagos Major Crimes Unit, a profiler who could think like a monster until he became one. But when he failed to stop The Tailor, a surgical serial killer who sews his victims into grotesque masterpieces, Tope didn't just lose the case. He lost his partner, his badge, and his mind. Now, Tope is a "Yesterday Man," a ghost haunting the city, working a dead-end security job and drowning his PTSD in bitter kola nuts and cheap gin. He thought the nightmares were over. He thought the Tailor was dead. He was wrong. When a body is found suspended in a Lagos skyscraper, displayed with the Tailor’s signature golden thread, the message is clear. But this time, it’s personal. Carved into the victim’s chest is one word: TOPE. Forced back into a world that despises him, Tope must navigate a city fueled by corruption and ancient superstitions. With a skeptical forensic psychologist and detective as his only ally and a younger sister who has just become the killer’s next obsession, Tope must decide: How much of his soul is he willing to sew into the darkness to catch the man who owns his past?
The woman in my home
Amamirac
When her marriage becomes a prison of infidelity and silent abuse, she finds the courage to walk away — suitcase in hand, dignity barely intact. But nothing prepares her for the ultimate betrayal: the friend she trusted now living in her home… sleeping in her bed. In a world where loyalty is fragile and love is a battlefield, how do you rebuild when the people closest to you destroy everything? What secret is she hiding?
My Nemesis
Lune Noir
"They say a mother is a mini-god. In my house, she’s the devil in an Ankara wrapper." Abike lives her life like a "dapped chick"—walking on eggshells, avoiding the heavy hands and sharper tongue of the woman she calls "Mama." In their quiet Nigerian home, respect isn't earned; it’s beaten into the skin. But when a midnight phone call reveals a chilling secret, the world Abike thought she knew shatters. The woman who broke her body isn't her blood—she’s a jailer with a vendetta. Now, Abike must play a dangerous game of survival. If she isn't a daughter then who is she? A victim? Or a weapon waiting to be triggered? In a house built on lies, the truth doesn't just set you free... it starts a war.
OJUELEGBA
Dike
A supernatural adventure featuring Chiadi Nwogu, also known as The Dibia - a modern day mystic practitioner and intercessor for the spirit realms. In it, he learns the true nature of the Lagos city crossroads called Ojuelegba, and gets caught up in a deviant voodoo creature's terrible scheme to garner the ultimate power!
The missing heiress who stole my heart
akusophiaachukee
Nneka is just a scholarship student trying to survive in a rich, dangerous university. Then Obinna — powerful, feared, and completely out of her reach — starts watching her like she’s the only one he sees. Their connection grows fast. So does the danger. Jealous rivals close in. Strange men follow her. And secrets from Nneka’s past refuse to stay buried. Because Nneka isn’t who she thinks she is. She is the missing heiress everyone has been searching for. Loving her could cost Obinna everything. Walking away might cost them their lives. In a world of power, jealousy, and hidden truths… can their forbidden love survive? Chapters one to three of this story is free! Hurry and explore!
THE LAGOS POLYMATH
The Whyssman
In the sweltering heat of Surulere, Lagos, 23-year-old Tunde "Tee" Adebayo is drowning in his own potential. By day, he codes fintech prototypes in a cybercafé with faulty generators. By night, he designs agro-tech apps for his uncle's farm, writes viral Twitter threads on Yoruba proverbs, and tinkers with solar-powered phone chargers made from discarded e-waste. His mother sells akara on the roadside to keep the lights on; his younger sister's scholarship hangs by a thread. Tunde's curse? He can't choose one path—so he masters none. Then, at 2:17 a.m. on a rain-lashed Tuesday, he posts a 47-second video demo of "Àṣẹ"—a voice-AI that understands fractured Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba tonal shifts, and market-day bargaining rhythms to help illiterate traders access digital banking. He tags no one. Expects nothing. But in a Palo Alto penthouse, reclusive VC Elena Rostova—a woman who hasn't funded a pre-seed startup in three years after a devastating betrayal—scrolls past it… then rewinds. Twice. What she sees isn't just code. It's the ghost of her own lost brother—a Nigerian polymath who died before his genius could breathe. She DMs him: "I'll wire $50K tomorrow. But you must do one thing: stop building everything. Build ONLY this." What follows isn't a fairy tale. It's a 10-part odyssey of near-collapse, cultural sabotage, a midnight raid by data thieves, and a final invention that doesn't just make millions—it rewrites who gets to own the future of African tech.
THE DEAD ROSE AGAIN, BUT IN AFRICA
Jane Chude
THE DEAD ROSE AGAIN, BUT IN AFRICA is a thought provoking African fictional story that exposes human hypocrisy, greed, and the painful truth that people are often valued more in death than in life.
CHOICES THAT BUILD NOT BREAK
Doc Cally
In Choices That Build, Not Break, Doc-Cally shares a moving true reflection drawn from an ordinary day that revealed extraordinary lessons about life, love, and mistakes. A simple visit to the salon becomes a mirror of society’s silent struggles, where emotions often overpower wisdom and innocence suffers quietly. Through the story of a young mother and her neglected child, Doc-Cally exposes the painful realities behind rushed choices and misplaced desires. She reminds readers that life doesn’t shatter all at once, it cracks slowly, one compromise at a time. With heartfelt honesty, she urges youths to think, pray, and choose wisely before acting on fleeting emotions. Choices That Build, Not Break is a timeless reminder that every decision we make is either building our peace or breaking our future.
Nemesis
Darcness
The story follows Aisha, whose father, Samuel, is wrongfully convicted. Traumatized by corrupt police and societal betrayal, she abandons her innocence, transforms herself, and eventually teams up with Jemima—a survivor in her own right—to exact justice. After years in hiding, deception, and moral compromise, the two women decide that the legal system will never deliver. They must become the instrument of vengeance. Using secrets, infiltration, betrayal, and even help from Samuel’s prison contacts, they build a plan to take down the retired policemen who ruined their lives—one by one.
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