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WINNER OF THE SHORT STORY CONTEST
2025
Somtochukwu Udeozo is a young writer with an earnest desire to expand the vista of Nigerian literature. He has authored many articles, essays, and short stories, including The Rain That Beat Us’ and his latest work, Marble, glass and other suffocations: The case of Chief Ezeobi. When he is not at his desk, he is a budding Biomedical Engineering student, a voracious reader, and likes to think of himself as a regular teenage boy.
Marble, glass and other Suffocations: The Case of Chief Ezeobi
An Excerpt:
Chief Okey Ezeobi did not build a house in his village of Umueze; he landed a spacecraft.
That was what it looked like to the locals who gathered at the rusty iron gates, chewing sugar cane and pointing fingers. In a landscape of brown earth, corrugated zinc roofs, and porous cement blocks that inhaled the humid afternoon air, Okey’s mansion was an alien insult. It was white—a blinding, clinical white that rejected the red dust of the East. It had no verandas. It had no overhanging eaves to shade the walls. And, most scandalously of all, it had no windows that opened.
“It is called Minimalism,”
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