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Open Your Eyes<br />
Su’eddie Agema<br />
You begin to shiver as your ears find the tap <strong>of</strong> the ro<strong>of</strong> once more. Tap tap tap…<br />
BOOOOOOOOV! You feel the wrapper on you, dragged <strong>of</strong>f slowly… Your eyes are still<br />
squeezed tighter… You feel the veins in your head knotting up…<br />
Then you open your eyes…<br />
Su’eddie Vershima Agema is the author <strong>of</strong> three poetry<br />
collections including Home Equals Holes: Tale <strong>of</strong> an Exile<br />
(Joint Prize Winner, Association <strong>of</strong> Nigerian Authors Prize for<br />
Poetry 2014); Bring our casket home: Tales one shouldn’t tell<br />
(longlisted for the Association <strong>of</strong> Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize<br />
2013) and a short story collection, The Bottom <strong>of</strong> another Tale.<br />
His poem, ‘Tales one shouldn’t tell <strong>of</strong>ten’ was shortlisted for the<br />
Saraba/PEN Nigeria Poetry Prize 2013. Su’eddie was included<br />
in EGC’s Top 50 Nigerian Contemporary Poets in 2013 and<br />
2014. He is the Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Association <strong>of</strong> Nigerian Authors<br />
(Benue State Chapter), as well as Editor and Executive Officer at<br />
SEVHAGE. Su’eddie’s personal blog is http://sueddie.wordpress.<br />
com. He also blogs at http://sevhagereviews.wordpress.com,<br />
http://naijastories.com/author/sueddie @sueddieagema on<br />
Twitter.<br />
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Tales from the Other Side
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