'I'll Do Anything'

One day never got to Abuja. After waiting six hours with no help, he fought his way out of the train and traipsed the three kilometers to the next station or he dialed an otus through a payphone. He peered into the flask where he saw several scaly creatures floating in a thick, fetid soup of decay. Lizards. She had been eating lizards. A montage of very desperate acts. One moment she was there, smiling at him, and the next the chair was empty. The brass flask is the only sign that she had ever been there.