Novels by Paul Ezeodili

The aspirin was useless. Not because it didn't function anymore, but because Vanessa found that she didn't need it after all. Her migraines died out after her talk with Jake and they did not return. When she woke in the morning, she grabbed her phone to see if Jake had texted her, while half-praying he hadn't texted her. But there was no message from an unknown number. She frowned, a little disappointed, and she did not understand why she felt disappointed. She sighed, dropped her phone and rolled out of bed. Vanessa worked in a cosmetics store as an attendant, which was ironic because she knew little about cosmetics and she never wore make up. She only knew all she needed to know, in order to make sales, which was just the last price of each product and their basic selling points. She got to the store, cleaned the tiled floors, turned the 'open' sign on the glass door, and went behind the counter to wait for customers. But none came. And Vanessa just sat there with her chin

Love and Light was Vanessa’s first home, her church—the one place where her fears dissipated, and sanity embraced her reality. Her mother taught her the values of living a good Christian life, and even taught her how to pray her first prayers before meals. It had been that way longer than Vanessa could remember, and every Sunday always seemed even more beautiful than the previous Sunday—the choir sang more cheerfully, the preaching was more fulfilling and the smiles she got from everyone around her were more inspiring. And it was this way every Sunday, until one Sunday when Vanessa learnt her boyfriend she had been dating for two years was cheating on her. The news had shattered her heart. She was in church that Sunday morning when she received a text from Amber, an old friend of hers. The phone had been ringing at first, disturbing the peace of everyone seating around her. Vanessa never put her phone on silent, not even in church—she could not afford to miss an emer