The Veranda · Everything We've Published
Browse every page of The Veranda — essays, fiction, features, and the places you can sit and stay a while.
Fiction & Literary Essays
Short Fiction · Overheard Series
Delta Sky Club, Gate B17. Two women, a flight delay, and a question asked in the calmest voice imaginable. A complete short story.
New Fiction · Preview · Chapters 1–2
Lara Kolawole is a Lagos fashion designer one Monday away from losing everything. Then a wedding invitation arrives addressed to the wrong Ms. Kay. She decides it's close enough. Full book out next week on Kindle.
Serialized Novel · Chapter One
A woman arrives at her ex's wedding uninvited, in a dark emerald lace dress that makes the whole room stop. Feyi wasn't there for the jollof rice. She had one singular agenda. The story begins here.
Read Chapter One →Love, Relationships & The Complicated Stuff
Essay · Love & Power
On performing for someone who had already decided. And the moment you realise you were the casting director all along. Featuring the Book of Esther.
Essay · Love & Power · Trilogy III
She said 'I do' again — but to the same version of herself. On patterns, unhealed wounds, and why the second chance has to come with new instructions.
Essay · Love & Power
Love is a feeling. Responsibility is a choice. Marriage is sustained by capacity — not feelings. You can be loved and still not be chosen.
Lifestyle, Culture & The Soft Life in Practice
Anonymous Submissions
Submit & Read · The Confessional
Tell us something you've never said out loud. One paragraph. Anonymous. Raw. Read this week's confessions and submit your own.
Featured Confession
On gravesites, grief, and keeping people alive in the only place that matters. A confession that needed its own page. 96 words.
Interactive Features & Commentary
Weekly Diary · Vol. I No. 01
150 guests. A printer that only printed yellow. Help that didn't show. It was me, the food, and God — and somehow everything got to the table hot.
Advice Column
Agony aunt meets big aunty energy. Send your relationship, friendship, and lifestyle questions. Lola answers in her voice — honest, warm, zero performance.
Culture Commentary
Hot takes on Nigerian pop culture, relationship discourse, and the conversations nobody else is having out loud. Short, punchy, opinionated.
Books & Shop
The complete Kindle catalog — family sagas, noir romance, corporate drama, betrayal, and the chaos of Nigerian weddings. All available on Amazon.
About
Chef by day, writer all the time. Lagos-rooted, MS in AI, four published fiction titles, and the woman who built this magazine because she couldn't find it anywhere else.
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