Thriller & Crime

Suspenseful diaries filled with mystery, danger, secrets, investigations, and unexpected twists.

Scripted Diaries

Nneka: The Bridge

I don’t know how I got here. One minute I was at the police station, the next minute I’m standing on a bridge. Cars are passing behind me, people are driving home, somebody is laughing somewhere, and life is still happening. How strange, the world didn’t stop. It should have. Mine did but everybody else’s […]

Scripted Diaries

Ijeoma: The Last Night

I can’t hear them anymore, at least I think I can’t.  The pounding inside my chest is too loud, every heartbeat sounds like somebody banging on a metal door.My lungs hurt.My legs hurt.Everything hurts. I crouch behind a stack of cement blocks and press my body against the cold concrete.Please.Please don’t come this way. I

Unscripted Diaries

Nancy – Somebody Is Watching Me

There is a difference between being alone and feeling alone. I learned that tonight. The hard way. For the past three months, my life has become a predictable cycle of exhaustion.Wake up.Fight traffic.Work.Fight more traffic.Get home late.Repeat. Sometimes I wonder if adulthood is just paying bills while sitting in increasingly worse traffic. I work in

Scripted Diaries

Lanre – Lagos Has Secrets

People think journalism is glamorous.It isn’t. Nobody tells you that most investigative reporting involves sitting in uncomfortable places for unreasonable amounts of time while questioning your life choices. For instance: At the moment I am writing this, it is 2:17 a.m. Mosquitoes have declared war on my existence. My back hurts. My phone battery is

Short Stories

THE VICTIM

THE VICTIM is a tense courtroom drama where nothing is as simple as it first appears. A newly called lawyer,  barely confident in her own voice,  is assigned to defend an accused man in a rape trial that has already captured public outrage.  Across the aisle stands a seasoned prosecutor,  precise,  commanding,  and ruthless in her control of the courtroom. https://a.co/d/0eftHTri

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