Odafe Atogun

“Wake Me When I'm Gone”

“You showed up claiming to be somebody we know. We all see you as a man who has lost his identity—in fact, a man who has lost his mind…”

“Did you have to sneak home like a thief in the night?”

“Build a life elsewhere.”

“Studying the handwriting on the envelope, his eyes lit up in recognition. But then a frown crept across his face and he wondered how a letter simply marked TADUNO—no last name, no address, just Taduno—managed to reach him in a nameless foreign town.”