Skateboarding was all Adjoa ever cared about. She would skate for hours everyday with her crew. Today however, she was alone. Her crew had travelled outside Accra for a competition she wasn’t keen on.
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Skam!
Skateboards and Monsters
Adjoa only cares about skating. Then one ordinary ride through Accra drops her onto a bridge, face to face with monsters and a mission she never asked for. By Kadi Yao Tay.
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She was skitching her way to the game centre to throw down with the game gbees. Oh how she loved to destroy their stupid egos. She let go of the car she had hitched a ride on and made the turn to the game centre.
Darkness.
Adjoa was no longer at Lapaz on the turn to the game centre when the darkness evaporated. She was on a bridge. She vaguely remembered the bridge but didn’t have time to think about it.
Where am I and how did I get here were questions that burned on her mind.
“It’s a long story but you’ll soon understand” replied an all too familiar voice.
“Bede, is that you?”
To be continued…
A fox with golden teeth. A pouch holding a fragment of Okomfo Anokye’s sword. A trickster god waiting. Adjoa’s story keeps going on Awam.
Keep reading on Awam ↗Where Skam! goes next
Skam! started as a short story. We're growing it into a comic, and one day, animation. Same Adjoa, same Accra, bigger monsters.
01 · 2020Short story
First published on Awam by Squid Magazine.
02 · In developmentComic
Adjoa, Bede and the monsters, drawn.
03 · SomedayAnimation
Skating, sword fights and a trickster god, moving.