Daily Stories

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE “Before we go for the assembly, can I privately mourn her please” I said as the tears flowed without an end… burning down my cheeks like acid. Father Soji’s eyes lingered on me for a moment, then he nodded slowly. “I understand. I will have you…

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE In that moment, it felt like the earth should open up and swallow me alive. My ears rang. My chest caved in. My breath caught in my throat. Cordelia. He said Cordelia. Was he joking? Was this some cruel trick to measure my loyalty? Or had…

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE I waited endlessly, my ears tuned to every sound in the corridor, my body jerking at the faintest footsteps. But the door never opened. The silence stretched into the dawn until my eyes burned with exhaustion. By morning, I dragged myself up, determined to be at…

© Opeyemi Akintunde I laid on my bed… Sorry not my bed… the bed given to me still humbled by what I had seen. Pretending to be unaware of what was happening was one thing, but having flashes of what I had just seen was another…The compound had become quiet after devotion. Voices had drifted away,…

© Opeyemi Akintunde The boy didn’t hesitate. He grabbed my elbow and, with a rough whisper… “Now!”… He shoved me through a back door I hadn’t noticed before. It led into a narrow service passage, dark and smelling of bleach. We moved like thieves, bent double, feet silent on cold concrete. At a point, he…

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE The door creaked open. I froze, my heart in my throat. Tears blurred my vision so badly I couldn’t make out the face standing there. A silhouette, a breath, a voice. “Oh my God!” the voice gasped. “What are you doing here? Do you want to…

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE The invisible force gripped me again. My feet moved like they weren’t mine. I tried to resist. “Please, Lord, I can’t… I can’t anymore.” My voice was barely a whisper. But the force dragged me down the corridor to the next door. It opened into something…

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE I thought I couldn’t go any further. My body refused. My spirit screamed. My heart begged. I whispered through clenched teeth, “Please Lord, I can’t see any more. Let me stop here. I don’t want to know what’s behind the other doors.” I pressed my back…

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE I could barely feel my legs anymore. My body was moving, but it didn’t belong to me. The invisible force dragged me out of the “factory of lies,”…a human butchery and back into the corridor. I collapsed against the wall, shaking. My mind tried to shut…

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde As Inspired by the DEEP ONE I thought I had seen it all. The roasted body. The dismembered parts. The grinders. The sacks of minced flesh. But the force wasn’t done with me. My body moved again, stiff like wood, dragged toward the fourth door. My spirit begged, *Please Lord, no more.*…