Adams Adeosun is an alumni of Goethe-Institut/Saraba/Bakwa magazines' Nigeria-Cameroon Literary Exchange workshops and Bookartarea's writing masterclass. His work is published/forthcoming online in Litro UK, Catapult, Arts & Africa, Agbowo, Music in Africa, This is Africa, etc; and in print in Transition, Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria. He was shortlisted for the Awele Creative Trust award in 2017.

FICTION

A Natural History of Briefly Gorgeous Vegetables

By ADAMS ADEOSUN

It was in that moment at thirteen—eyes on what predated me, fear in my heart and breath knocked out my lungs—that I came closest to being like God.