How To Distract Yourself From Dying. You can’t, but you convince yourself you might be able to. Also, you’re not in the best position to clean out of earth. You’re on a saloon chair, having your hair washed. You make the plan anyway. Finish hair, pick up your friend from…

You said not to write under its influence, so I waited. Now, as the electric vestiges leave my body, and sobriety approaches, I want to let you know that you have moved me in a manner I never anticipated. Last night, I committed your details to memory. I know everything…

Started with a lot of silly goals. Do more Yoga, Learn French, Be snatched. Year trickles and I settled on one. Don’t waste your days. Jan-March: Beginner French. Quite useful, I was a fast learner. I’ve forgotten most of it, so we try again next year. Jan-April: A ton of…

Undoubtedly my worst year on record, but look, I snagged these great things. Got accepted for publishing in Transitions Magazine, which was established in 1960 and is published by The Hutchins center in Harvard University Commissioned by Action Aid to write about girls education and retention in Sokoto, Nigeria Selected…

I wish I wasn’t obsessed with his mustache. There’s a small vertical line between the hairs above his top lip. The line rests directly above the “V” of those lips. He laughs in monosyllables. “Tst tst tst”, even when I wasn’t funny on purpose. …

I’m never sure when I post here or share my links that anyone actually opens them. I am of course excluding the politeness of family, friends and people looking for conversational fodder to engage me. I was recently told by a friend that he shared my Medium link with a…

I contribute regularly to these good folks who have saved me from the administrative torture that is blogging and given me their platforms to fail and fail better. The Naked Convos; I write opinion pieces on film, art and the occasional angsty diary log. Fiction too. Alithnayn Visit the post for more.thenakedconvos.com The Luxe Digest, for…

Habibi’s aren’t supposed to drink at 1:35pm on a weekday. I do anyway because the indie music video that is my life is transitioning from Sepia to a grainy 70’s cassette tape feel. And I can’t stop it. I’m also really horny. Everything makes me horny these days. Yesterday, it…

“ Two hours later she was on a plane to Abuja replaying last night in her head. The sex helped but she’d left the house and the world had landed on the same spot she was standing.” Hollow At 9:50pm, when Henry turned the locks right and the doors of his Banana Island apartment opened, his thoughts were…thenakedconvos.com “ But I am also right, when I express the transformative and critical role of visual imagery and development. Even pop god Andy Warhol, and his surface exploration of subjects deemed fluff, understood that a thinking process follows every creative journey. The diffusion and end result of that process often creates art.”