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She wasn’t looking for love — not in Lagos, not with bills to pay, expectations to meet, and a life already demanding too much. But between morning bus stops and unplanned conversations, something quiet began to take shape. Soft Life: Hard Choices is a five-part romance about timing, restraint, and the courage it takes to…
Soft Life: Hard Choice Episode 4: We Couldn’t Pretend Anymore I still did not call him. Even with his number sitting quietly in my phone, I treated it like something fragile. Something that could change the shape of my days if I touched it too carelessly. So I waited. And in the waiting, something…
Episode 3: We Started Showing Up in Each Other’s Days I still did not think I was falling in love. That part matters. I had met Tunde at a bus stop. Nothing planned. Nothing intentional. Just two people surviving Lagos mornings. I told myself it was ordinary, and for a while, that lie held. Then…
Episode 2: He Knew My Name Before I Knew His It’s been a week since I met him at the park. I did not expect to see him again. Lagos is too big and too chaotic for coincidences to repeat themselves. People pass through your life like traffic. Brief. Loud. Gone. So after that…
Title: Soft Life, Hard Choices Episode 1: I Wasn’t Looking for Love I did not have time for love. Not in the poetic sense. In the real sense. The kind shaped by alarm clocks that rang too early and bills that refused to wait. I was young, Nigerian, and permanently tired. Work stress stayed with…
The memo went out on a Thursday morning. Subject: Internal Restructuring – Brandfair Advertising From: Regional Director One line made my heart stop. “Effective immediately, Mr. Bako has been reassigned to the training division in Abuja.” It didn’t say demoted. But everyone knew. There were murmurs around the office, eyes darting to me, quickly looking…
