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disappearing without a trace. Then seventeen-year-old Kulu goes to the market and never comes home. Her implant never sends a distress alert. When Rakiya checks the system, Kulu’s status eventually changes to two words she has seen before: Offline (Error). Rakiya’s university research has already uncovered strange failures in the safety network serving rural communities. Kulu’s disappearance turns those anomalies into something personal. Other girls have vanished the same way, all from underfunded regions still running outdated firmware. As Rakiya follows the data and speaks to the families left behind, a pattern begins to emerge. These girls are not simply falling through the cracks. Someone knows exactly how to make them disappear.

voice on the other end of the line to change everything. Tola Adeyemi keeps the building running—but it’s Adanna who brings him undone. Between deadlines, desire, and the lines they shouldn’t cross, Adanna and Tola find themselves slipping into something deeper that lingers far beyond rescue. Set in Lagos, Caught Between Floors is a character-driven office romance about two overworked professionals finding love in the in-between spaces.

They fall in love but have to deal with the reality of their lives outside their dreams during a period when the world was dealing with a global crisis.

the knot? What happens when love brings out the dangerous side of those who claim to love each other because they use love as a fuel or an excuse for their inherent selfishness? There’s a thin line between love and lunacy. Adesuwa jumped over that line after Mide’s betrayal in their marriage. When they say hell hath no fury than a woman scorned, they did not exaggerate. You’re marrying the version of your lover that both of you have not met yet. And it comes with consequences. Adesuwa & Mide found love in an unexpected place. The corridor leading to the Central Research Laboratory that housed the ‘APIN’ Lab, where Adesuwa worked in the College of Medicine, University of Lagos/Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Their love started soft, was therapeutic, enviable. Adesuwa and Mide would give up anything for each other. They would do whatever it took to keep what they shared. Even when the challenges that followed marriage came, they were a team. However, we do not know what we are capable of when we are put to the test. Some words that cannot be taken back are spoken. Silence lingers in place of communication. Mistakes are made. Wrong decisions are taken. And Adesuwa chose vengeance. But they are stuck forever, as long as Adesuwa can keep the secret of her vengeance protected. Between Love and Lunacy is a short story that questions everything you ever thought love and obsession was about. Themes: Love, Family, Marriage, Faith, Deceit, Religion, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Vengeance, Betrayal.

is pulled back by a strangely familiar man who is always assaulting her subconsciousness with whispers of a past she can’t quite recall. But when a chance encounter brings her face-to-face with Ifeanyi, a man who insists they once shared a bond, her world is turned upside down. Ifeanyi has spent years searching for the girl who helped him piece his world back together, made him fall deeply in love, then vanished before he could even say her name. When fate brings them together again, she’s changed—no memory of their shared past, no recognition in her eyes. But Ifeanyi is certain it’s her. As he tries to rekindle the connection they once had, he’s left questioning if this is a cruel trick of fate or the beginning of a second chance.

of bite-sized content, artfully put together by contributors who are readers and writers. This first issue is dedicated to speculative fiction, a genre built from things that never happened in recorded history. Wole Talabi talks about his stories and his Nommo Awards win. Chio Zoe brings The Origin Tree. Lara T. Kareem asks what “Nigerianness” means in fantasy marketed as Nigerian. Erhu Kome writes on getting ahead as a speculative fiction writer living in Nigeria; Adaeze Samuel contributes a poem, and Uchenna Nnabugwu and Makena Musembi review Riot Baby and An Unkindness of Ghosts. First published in 2021 and reissued by Sọna Books in 2026, free to read.