Kemmy B. (@kemmyb)
Writer ¦ Thinker ¦ Believer
No Appetite For That
The time said 8.55pm on the table clock and I shuddered, glancing at Mommy. Daddy wasn't home yet and that was a bad sign. He worked at construction company downtown and anytime he wasn't home by 6...
Not Under Suspicion
The door bell rang and it did at the exact moment I was about to win. I muttered, reluctantly took off my headphones and put my computer into sleep mode, leaving my video game paused. Christina was...
My Right To Choose
As Nancy gingerly slid the hair comb into my French chignon, she patted my hair and occasionally glanced at my face to make sure the hairstyle suited me. It was my wedding day. Then Mom burst into ...
Squished Flat
I sat across from him at a candlelit table. The restaurant was beautiful, not a place I had expected him to bring me. Not a five star place but somewhere in between with a natural, calming ambience...
Carriage
The tingling sensation moving through her tiny veins alerts her that the sun will soon be up. The forest daughter smiles but it fades quickly at the sound of a creak barely audible. It reaches her ...
I Need A Lift (2)
The Chapter Before..... Shari was a fledgling, burnt to a crisp and desecrating in the belly of the Underworld when Derek's ancestors found and rescued her. It took two decades for her to shed the ...
I Need A Lift!
As Derek crashed through a wall of wet ferns with his black cloak torn at the shoulder, he heard the distant whistle of an arrow and ducked before it pierced the branch above his head, splintering ...
Protest
Lily Cupid and Peony Cupid sat on the ledge of Maggie Knightley's office window, their wings neatly tucked behind them, wondering why the arrows of love they had shot at her and her colleague, Albe...
No Parking
After a decade in Houston, armed with her luggage and the confidence of someone who believed she remembered how things worked in Nigeria, Chioma drove calmly to shop at a supermarket. Her confidenc...
Plot Hole
Athena knew something was wrong when her pen refused to write. It was no ordinary pen but a fountain pen lined with a sliver of bark from the oldest oak tree in existence. She had no memory of how ...
That Special Store
Adunni yelped, palm resting on her chest where pearl necklace had been only a moment ago. The necklace her father gifted her on the day she was born. In all her eighteen years, she only took it off...
The Cheap Necklace
Sara alighted from her horse and ran like her life depended on it from the ramshackled house she shared with her mother to the local morgue. Chaotic were her thoughts that she didn't think her hors...
Complete Failure
My chest and biceps screamed for relief but I turned a deaf ear. Just one more. I brought the axe down and split another log, increasing the mound of chopped pieces beside me. Just one m—. I paused...
After Midnight (2)
BEFORE….. Nadaya, my sister, had always been afraid of failing the kingdom since she was little. I had given her the throne because I believed the people would accept her. She inherited the magic i...
After Midnight (1)
I cocked my head at the mournful whistle of the wind through the thick, tall trees overhead my cabin deep within the forest. Everything in nature had a voice and I'd learned to listen. This particu...