Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_e6a59ad70e5fcf9a4c34b3c691b0b63e, O_RDWR) failed: Disk quota exceeded (122) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/includes/hooks.php on line 259

Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data: files (path: ) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/includes/hooks.php on line 259

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/helpers/general.php on line 1275
Stories - Eboquills

Short Stories

Contributors

A Short Story By Igbokwe Roseline 

Igbokwe Roseline is a Nigerian medical student who enjoys creative writing. She has works published in the Moveee, Kalahari Review, Original Talku Talku, and elsewhere. Erinma You took your position just behind the white line that had been drawn on the tarred ground. The whole…

Contributors

A Short Story By Aliyu Yakubu 

Aliyu Yakubu is a Nigerian academic and writer. He lectures at the Department of Applied Biology/Microbiology, Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa, Nasarawa State. Kabiru, Is That You? It was fifteen minutes past twelve on Wednesday morning. The Sharon in which Nasir and others had been travelling had…

News

Eboquills Annual Anthology Launch 

We’re so excited to announce that Eboquills has launched an annual anthology. The submissions window opens today, 30th June 2023, and closes on 31st July 2023. For 2023, our anthology will be a curation of fine poetry- all forms of poetry. Theme: Our Girls: Their…

News

World Poetry Day Celebration 

World Poetry Day message from Eboquills Creative Director, Ehi-kowoicho Ogwiji. Every March 21st, we join poets around the world to celebrate the freedom of expression we found in poetry. We celebrate the ability to taste words in their most concentrated state. Poems are the oyster…

News

Eboquills is Back and Better 

After a six-month hiatus, we are excited to announce that Eboquills is back with renewed zeal. Our team members are supercharged and ready to offer any help on your writing journey. More than connecting writers with an audience, Eboquills is always looking for ways to personally connect with…

News

New Book Alert: (S)kin Folk By Tochi Onyebuchi 

Fiction Advocate is set to publish Tochi Onyebuchi’s latest book (S)kin Folk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah on April 13th. According to Onyebuchi, his new book, “use(s) critical analysis of Americanah as a pretext for writing about my political education, my love life, Palestine, Paris, and…

News

Call for Entries: 2021 K & L Prize 

The K and L prize, founded and sponsored by New Zealand based Nigerian writer, Myles Ojabo, awards $1000 (New Zealand) to the best piece of unpublished fiction. Now in its third edition, the 2021 K & L prize 2021 has thrown open its submission windows….

News

Enter the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize, 2020 

The Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize, 2020 has opened its windows for submissions for the prize which is presently in its ninth year. According to the announcement made yesterday, the “Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers in collaboration with Something for Everybody Ventures (SFEV), hereby invites Nigerian…

Fiction

Life Cycle of a Girl 

Written By: Jamiu Ahmed For God so love a girl, he named her Rose… Rose is a sanguine bud — the rudiment of tomorrow’s Queen-flower — a fruit-bearer en-wombed by series of onion layers. The garden is a home — the reflection of a graveyard…

Non-Fiction

Self-confessed 

Written By: Henry P. Ugochukwu There is something about soul maladies which bring people to a point where their faith is so shaken. A point at which, when they try to hold any deity, it slips right out of their grip. Henry tries to share his…

Non-Fiction

It Never Ends 

Written By: Henry P. Ugochukwu Henry writes about depression and mental health in such a beautiful way. His poetic expressions are vivid and piercing. They all sit on the gallery of the reader’s thoughts for days. Read this piece slowly. There is no guarantee that…

News

Writing Contests to Enter in May 

The stay-at-home order is taking longer than we expected and it is draining for self-employed people and those who just reared their heads out in the entrepreneurial path. For most of us, if not all, writing is so much of a side-job or a pastime….

Fiction

Bleeding (Part II) 

Written By: Ejiofor C.E.S That night when everyone had gone to sleep, Kamarana locked herself in the bathroom and cried. It seemed as if the whole day was uncoiling itself and recoiling on her, crushing her, shrinking her. She remembers her mother telling her to…

Fiction

Bleeding (Part I) 

Written By: Ejiofor C. E. S Kamarana wanted to die. At first because of the stinging pain between her legs and the stickiness of the clotting blood that trickled with lazy effort between her legs. But now though she feared she would die of something…

Fiction

GUILTY AND INNOCENT 

Written By: Elisha Bala (EB) Mares in the night held her tight- as cares of the past stole sleep away from her eyes in the middle of that lonely night- until it was 6:30 am. Suddenly, Hauwa heard the doorbell; “Ding dong“. She arose from…

Fiction

Episode Four: Beautiful Pieces 

Written By: Josh Effiong TRISHA At Trisha’s place, She’d woken up at 6:00am and quickly replayed the past evening incident in head. “I’m sorry I stressed you Mr. unknown” Trisha muttered smacking her head. While she was about placing her feet into the flip-flop beside…

Contributors

The Death of an Age 

Written By: Nnaemeka Enemchukwu It was not long before our Great Personage was taken up in the midst of green clouds that the strange men came. This time we were living in an age of magic, miracles, and mysteries. We had a life that was…

Fiction

Episode Three: Beautiful Pieces 

Written By: Josh Effiong BRYAN “I’m sorry about what happened earlier. I was just…” “Can’t you just apologize without any excuses?” Bryan interrupted. “If I knew you were the same person, I wouldn’t have stopped,” Bryan added. Trisha went mute and all listened to the…

Letters

A Letter To Mother: What My Body Is 

Written By: Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu Mother, I saw your picture on a preeminent poster yesterday. It revealed your gap-teeth to lookers, whom I’m sure must be enchanted by your mesmeric smile to pledge you their support. I had to look twice to identify the picture…

Fiction

Episode Two: Beautiful Pieces 

Written By: Josh Effiong TRISHA “Good morning ma’am” a familiar voice greeted as she stepped into the premises of her workplace. “What’s good about the morning?” she asked. One foot in, “Hey…Good morning” It was Smith, her colleague. As she ransacked her handbag to get…

Fiction

Beautiful Pieces: Episode One 

Written By: Josh Effiong BRYAN It had been a very long weekend. Starting off from Saturday, after returning home at 1:00pm, Bryan dashed into the restroom to have a quick shower before figuring out what he would have for lunch. With a white towel wrapped…

Letters

A Love Letter 

Written by Owolabi Awwal To Ajoke, pure and simple, beautiful and amazing, whose heart agrees with mine Dear Ajoke, I begin this letter with everything that has weight and occupy space, everything that lives yet exists only in man’s imagination. I’ve come to your door…

News

Afrika-Writes Poetry Workshop 

The Afrika-Writes Poetry Workshop shall be a four-day poetry writing workshop is set to begin on October 4th to end with a public event on 08 October 2019 at Steam Lounge, Old GRA, Makurdi. The workshop is planned in such a way that: -Two days…

Contributors

RETURNING HOME I 

Fatima is muttering prayers as she walks down the narrow path which leads home. She cannot stop peering through her shoulder. Everywhere is silent. The kind of silence which injects fear. When all a person hears is the chirping of crickets singing lullabies for street…

News

Dear Heartbroken Girl 

When the vapor of emotions begins to sublimate, love develops wings and flies away like chaff, leaving you before a heap of regrets, biting memories and excruciating pain. It is not rare to see people who dropped their red hot coal of love on some…

Fiction

The Currency of Hope 

Peter sat by the road side. His skin, black like ‘condemned’ engine oil and his eyes, a reflection of a soul that was nothing but an ash tray of burnt dreams. Not only were his eyeballs hanging conspicuously from its sockets, they were as red…

Fiction

Broken Ships II 

Vivy recalled how she stood there shivering as her wet black dress dripped water while her boyfriend, blinded by his insecurities went on blabbing. “What insensitivity!” She thought as she removed her shower cap and freed her massive braids and began to peel the wet…

Fiction

Broken Ships 

The first time Vivy met him, she had just left the library and was cycling to her hostel that evening. She was wearing a pair of blue shorts, a cream T-shirt and a  face cap to match. With her tablet in a backpack strapped to…

Fiction

Irene II 

Both Ehi and Blessing were at Irene’s funeral last weekend. Clad in sparkling white knee-length gowns, hands folded across their chest, they stood by her graveside. Blessing was crying- no- wailing so loudly that Ehi was beginning to feel like her heart was hewn from…

Fiction

Irene I 

To hold a pen bearing the world’s weight- this is what it takes to be a writer.- To easily detect the footprints of tears blurred out with many layers of make-up and see a person’s sincere hunger for laughter is a familiar scene in her…

Fiction

Flickering rays and a beam 

Chi is wedged between a wooden table and a leather chair close to the window of her self-con apartment, down the ever-quiet Engineer Kitchener’s Street. Raymond, her boyfriend was keen on getting her an apartment on this street because he knew the serenity would mean…

en_USEnglish

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_e764acbb9876e1ccf26f967f37511c9a, O_RDWR) failed: Disk quota exceeded (122) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/helpers/class-fw-session.php on line 13

Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data: files (path: ) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/helpers/class-fw-session.php on line 13

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_faf3f0be21b741912646734193f89d00, O_RDWR) failed: Disk quota exceeded (122) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/helpers/class-fw-session.php on line 13

Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data: files (path: ) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/helpers/class-fw-session.php on line 13

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_bda858b03a249b3535fcb5111adfa611, O_RDWR) failed: Disk quota exceeded (122) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/helpers/class-fw-session.php on line 13

Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data: files (path: ) in /home/eboquill/public_html/wp-content/plugins/unyson/framework/helpers/class-fw-session.php on line 13