Spirit and Red Earth

A collection of five stories by Palmgod

Some things do not stay buried.

In these five stories rooted in Nigerian soil, the dead are not gone — they are waiting. A grandmother refuses to be moved. A cousin returns three times in white. An ancestor sits hungry by a pool. A body in a mortuary drawer wakes up, slowly, with patience. A young woman walks into a forest and does not come back.

Spirit and Red Earth draws from the thin space between the living and the dead that West African tradition has always known exists — where the unseen makes demands, where the body remembers what the mind ignores, and where ignoring the signs is the most dangerous thing you can do.

These are not ghost stories. These are true shapes wearing fiction's clothes.

​Okija  

​The Mortuary Attendant  

​The Unfed Guest  

​Grandma's Refusal  

​The Drowned Passport