Sicklecell Stories

Love and loss are things that Teniola Eboda must deal with to find out who she is. Teniola feels shortchanged in the School of Life. As a Sickle Cell patient, she is not a normal teenager and is forced to spin stories out of her head to get through every day. Her twin, Nifemi, is only a carrier and always on the prowl for his next girlfriend. Her father is a politician living in a different city and is hardly ever home. Her mother is obsessed with her enemies and, despite her education, she believes that her enemies are at work in her family's history of health challenges. Her sister watches the proceedings while trying to avoid their mother's matchmaking. During a nationwide strike that affects movement, Teniola has to find alternative ways to keep busy to ensure her sanity while trying not to think of her expiry date. Her entire family is on a countdown to a major milestone for her. Her minder, Aunty Nneka, is more available than her self-employed mother and together with Eloka, her best friend, they find new things to do on the internet. They find shocking truths about her father that could rip the fabric of their lives. But with a transplant coming up, Teniola may have just days in the calendar to set things right. It's her countdown to survival!

© 2026 Samha Bello Maitama, believed that love was something you enjoyed and held on to, even when it began to slip quietly through your fingers. Until the day her marriage ended. Left to rebuild her life with her two-year-old daughter and the weight of everything she had tried to make work, she returns to a world that feels familiar, yet completely different. Because this time, she is no longer the woman who hoped things would change. But while she is trying to piece her life back together, there is someone who has been watching from a distance for far longer than she believed. Bilal Ahmed Chanchangi. Steady where everything else was fragile. Patient where she had only known pressure. He offers not to replace what she had lost, but something she had never truly had. And somehow, learning to accept that kind of love might be the hardest part of everything in her life.

Adah lived inside a mind that rarely gave her peace. Some days , her thoughts felt like a crowded intersection-loud, chaotic, impossible to cross safely, she ain't smile often but when she did it was the kind of smiled that held itself together out of habit Ximere, on the other hand, carried his struggles in his body. His illness was real, something doctors could name, measure, and warn him about. But that wasn't the only life he knew. The streets raised him-taught him how to survive, how to move smart, how to never show weakness. He balanced hospital visits with block loyalty, pain with pride. Will the sickness they carry bring them together or will it break them more than they are already broken.

A raging fever of 105 sends poor London to the ER, unconscious inside an ambulance. When he wakes up with a hard time breathing and with horrible chest pains, neither he nor his companion, Banríon, were expecting the diagnostics given by a nurse coming in to check up on the ill boy.

Twenty years. The space between them represented twenty years. Years of loving her, years of longing, years of trying to forget her. She had never forgotten what he looked like. But she'd almost forgotten what his voice sounds like. A simple coincidence brings Ahmad and Zaytuna face to face, in the city where it all began. Now, two decades later, both have changed, both have families. But they still had one thing in common. A story of broken hearts, and unrelenting love. Rankings #2 in Deen

Pages: 225 Protagonist: Nadia Habeeb Burning Bright is not a story about statistics,but of an over-achieving young lady, who is determined not to let sickle cell anemia stand in her way. Without notice, difficulties that Nadia Habeeb did not foresee complicate her health and love life, changing everything immensely. With the walls of life itself closing in on her, will she stand conqueror this time? If she does, what will be her fate back home in Nigeria, with a closed-off heart, and physical challenge? This is a story of a family struggling to maintain faith and hope in the face of severe emotional challenges, social upheaval, medical necessity, and the paradox of humanity. Set within the complexities of Nigerian culture, it is the story of young people trying to make their way in a world they didn't make. It is also a story of pain and redemption, of love lost and found, generational conflict, and the emergence of true faith. BlueInk Reviews described this story as, "...a solidly told story with nice detail about Nigerian culture and family dynamics and fully rendered characters..." Foreword Clarion reviews said about it, "...In Burning Bright, Maryam Awaisu introduces people to the realities of living with this disease in a novel that is as entertaining as it is informative." Steve Devitt had this to say: "The strongest parts of the book are Nadia's adventures within the healthcare system. Anyone who has grasped the missing emergency button will relate to this. Ms. Awaisu deals with the Nigerian medical system with sensitivity that is not lacking in Black humor." Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

"𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒." "𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠."

This is a written version of a webcomic I'm planning to make that has a very vague plot at the moment

15 year old Natasha is a young sickle cell patient just starting high school but what happenes when she meets the popular boy and start dating him will she tell will they stay together will they end up being a couple.

Born fighting against her own blood, Han Soo-ah was never expected to survive - but she refuses to be defined by her disease. Bullied, isolated, and broken by loss, she still dreams of healing others. When compassion meets cruelty, and love meets time, Soo-ah's story becomes a powerful reminder: even a short life can shine brighter than forever.

A girl realized that the world isn't what she thought it was, there are bigger sides to life and she is about to find that out. My name is kiara and this is my story, this is how I learnt to trust again after betrayal and how I learnt to let go and live again. Also, my life is about to take a drastic turn and I hope my secret wouldn't unfold itself..

A young girl with sickle cell making herself a bossss 😘

this story is about a young girl who person discriminate because of her sickness.. which is sickle cell but little did they know that she was going to overcome her problem

~|•I'm not sure how to explain it so you might have to read it to find out. {@Frifri13💖}

This is a fictional sickle cell love story. that is meant to shed light on the disease but also show others that loving and being loved is possible with a little bit of patience. Dior is a twenty two year old single mom living with a debilitating illness that makes her believe it is impossible to find love. Roman is a player who is struck and fell in love at first sight. He tries to show Dior love and support as she is skeptical and fights him the entire way.

❝𝐌𝐀𝐙𝐈'𝐒 𝐔𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆❞ (✦. ⊹ ˚). 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, mazikeen martell discovers the truth behind her father's disappearance as well as learning to control her odd new abilities but maybe everything is not so bad when someone who understands her comes along. ❪SEASON 1 - tbd❫ ❪FEM!OC x TAYO 'tazer' AMUSAN❫ started: 07/27/2024 ended: ©fayeproductions 2024

"Just because he said he loves you that does not mean he truly meant that. He might say so to get something from you or to fool you around."

A spoken word poem