Saturday, 14 June 2025

Debut Flash: 'Heedless' by Chikamma

Daniel Bankole died on a Wednesday, on a day uncharacteristically bright as if the sun didn’t care what had happened to my friend.

Perhaps it didn't.

The grass beneath my feet did not. Nor the students who crunched on their blades in the assembly and the air and the teachers who gasped into it.

No one knew him like I did.

 


Chikamma is a fiction writer and essayist whose work is centered on examining and critiquing the self. She is a Mechanical Engineering student from Nigeria but fiction is her first love.

 

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