"The Bicycle Girl"

Title"The Bicycle Girl"
Year for Search2013
AuthorsThompson, Tade
Secondary TitleExpanded Horizons
Volume / Editionno. 40
PaginationEJournal
Date PublishedJuly 2013
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author, Nigerian author
Annotation

The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went. 

URLhttp://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=3234
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Author Note

The author, who is a psychiatrist, was born in England of Yoruba parentage, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in England.

Full Text

2013 Thompson, Tade. “Bicycle Girl.” Expanded Horizons, no. 40 (July 2013). http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=3234.

The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went. The author, who is a psychiatrist, was born in England of Yoruba parentage, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in England.