Enyinna Nnabuihe

Enyinna Nnabuihe, an Igbo writer and practicing pharmacist, was born in 2002 in Lagos, Nigeria. The winner of the 2023 Best Okereke Prize, his fiction has appeared in The Master’s Review, Southern Humanities Review, AFREADA, and elsewhere. His short story, “The Anatomy of a Boy Who Never Became a Man,” was longlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and shortlisted for Porter House Review’s 2025 Editor’s Prize in Fiction. He is currently at work on a short story collection.

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The Anatomy of a Boy Who Never Became a Man

BY Enyinna Nnabuihe

The boy traced his fingers over his skin in the way he saw the ladies in the commercials do. Sensuously, carefully, like any pressure would till his skin and give way to pores that would erode the glow he’d struggled so hard to cultivate.