The Hidden Corpse in Apartment Seven

The Hidden Corpse in Apartment Seven

Author: Carol Shaw

Chapter 1: Sun, Kilishi, and Suspicion

Beef dey take only 6 to 8 hours to dry turn kilishi. Sun dey bake everything, you fit smell the spice and smoke from far.

For Naija, once sun dey hammer well or harmattan dey blow, e no go take beef plenty time before e go turn that crunchy kilishi wey dey make belle sweet. Na that fast! Sunlight and small patience, and you don get your snack.

E make me reason—if na person body, e go dry like kilishi under Naija sun, or e get another level?

Abi e go different if na human being? If dem wan mummify person for this our obodo, with all the heat and wahala, e go dry sharp-sharp like kilishi, or body go do one kind? Na this kain thing dey worry me for mind, as I dey reason the story wey I wan share with una.

But this one no be just about kilishi—na real Naija mystery dey come. You ready?

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