Osahon

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

Body? Glass - Nightmare Magazine My head. Let’s start with my hair, more specifically, follicle by follicle. Brown in color to match my eyes; curly like traps—I’m Black—see it now. My hair lies fluffy on my head, like a good wig for ...

How does depression feel like? Like a rock sitting on your head. Like a portal made of broken glass, that you created. In @nightmare-magazine.com is Body? Glass, a world where you can feel every pain. But what if you could feel more than just suffering? www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/body...

Body? Glass - Nightmare Magazine My head. Let’s start with my hair, more specifically, follicle by follicle. Brown in color to match my eyes; curly like traps—I’m Black—see it now. My hair lies fluffy on my head, like a good wig for ...

"Body? Glass" by @osahon4545.bsky.social
In two words, chilling and real
Brace yourself for this one
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/body...

Body? Glass - Nightmare Magazine My head. Let’s start with my hair, more specifically, follicle by follicle. Brown in color to match my eyes; curly like traps—I’m Black—see it now. My hair lies fluffy on my head, like a good wig for ...

How does depression feel like? Like a rock sitting on your head. Like a portal made of broken glass, that you created. In @nightmare-magazine.com is Body? Glass, a world where you can feel every pain. But what if you could feel more than just suffering? www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/body...

Merci!

ICYMI - read all about it

ICYMI - read all about it

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

Thank you! One is out now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

Very loaded month, as I have two short stories coming out from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com that could not be more different. Space opera about lost cultural history vs horror about existing

Very loaded month, as I have two short stories coming out from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com that could not be more different. Space opera about lost cultural history vs horror about existing

New story out! “Dad went out to Get the Milk” in @LightspeedMag is a fantasy piece about the costs of being an absent yet ‘providing’ parent, while also dealing with monsters from other worlds. Tune in if that’s your thing:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dad-...

New story out! “Dad went out to Get the Milk” in @LightspeedMag is a fantasy piece about the costs of being an absent yet ‘providing’ parent, while also dealing with monsters from other worlds. Tune in if that’s your thing:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dad-...

Two of my favourite stories come out in October, and coincidentally both in Lightspeed and Nightmare

I have a story out in Lightspeed this month that’s about…wanting your parent to leave you alone after they finish fighting monsters, so you can play on your Nintendo?

Don’t ask me too many questions

They Bought a House - Nightmare Magazine The idea for this story began in my final week at the Clarion Writers Workshop. I wanted to write a haunted house horror story using stripped language, but unsurprisingly, it became strange and detail...

New story day! “They Bought a House” in @nightmare-magazine.com is an unhinged haunted house set in Benin city. There are ghosts making ccoconut rice, there are people living in walls, and most importantly, there is Nothing 🤗. Read here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...

I’d love to know your thoughts !

Ughhhh

All the World’s a Prison - Failed Architecture In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing ex...

All the World’s a Prison @failedarchitect.bsky.social Osahon Ize-Iyamu In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing exclusive ownership of the apartment

The Revised Version Issue five: short fiction by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

Story day! What if Jack from Jack and Jill was used for rice + chicken? Or Mary’s little lamb was used for efo riro? “The Revised Version” is all about cooking nursery rhymes, but also the weight of family responsibility. Read here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-revise...

All the World’s a Prison - Failed Architecture In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing ex...

Story day! For Failed Architecture, “All the World’s a Prison” is science fiction about the horrors of Lagos housing, but worse. What makes you eligible to possess a space? What if it’s taken from you? Read here: failedarchitecture.com/all-the-worl...

All the World’s a Prison - Failed Architecture In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing ex...

Story day! For Failed Architecture, “All the World’s a Prison” is science fiction about the horrors of Lagos housing, but worse. What makes you eligible to possess a space? What if it’s taken from you? Read here: failedarchitecture.com/all-the-worl...

fun and creepy, with a real gut-punch at the end

The Revised Version Issue five: short fiction by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

Story day! What if Jack from Jack and Jill was used for rice + chicken? Or Mary’s little lamb was used for efo riro? “The Revised Version” is all about cooking nursery rhymes, but also the weight of family responsibility. Read here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-revise...

SPOILERS but I think there’s such an interesting parallel re: Remmick in Sinners and the Peoples Temple aka ‘Jonestown’ irl. Charismatic leader promising Black people that freedom can only exist in the confines of death.
Where are the essays on this or do I need to open laptop?

We the People Excluding I - Lightspeed Magazine We were in the mines when the world was falling apart. I remember, the earth was cracking, and the plants were going limp, and the world looked dark blue, less full of life. Everyone tried to group to...

The protagonist is on the run from a Fox that tricked him into sacrificing himself to save his underground mining community from the end of the world. But he grows tired. He must outwit the fox.

By @osahon4545.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-t...

There's Never Time to Be — Sans. PRESS In this speculative story by Osahon Ize-Iyamu, a son toils at the garden of his mother in an endless attempt to expunge his guilt and grief.

Ever since Ogbe's mother became the soil in his garden, he's been pretty reclusive. He only focuses on tending to her. Weeding, watering, killing pests. An eternal penance.

Heartwrenching metaphorical fantasy by @osahon4545.bsky.social

www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

Thank you for your kind words!

Glad to see this pop up on my feed from a few months ago. It was a delight then, and it is a delight now.

Sunwoo is brilliant and this is equally a brilliant story: