See person pikin, see as e fresh… You dry your dripping body with the towel, careful to avoid ripping it in places where time and use have stretched it thin. You try to calculate how much money you have gotten in a week. You can’t. You’re assured it is a sizable sum. You remind yourself […]
Isn’t it funny how everything becomes urgent only when you have little time to do them? Think about it. That last project you stayed up all night to complete, only because you had a deadline to beat the next day. Well then, having six months to live feels the exact way. Talatu is seated beside […]
You hate Mondays. You get your weekly wages on this day, but you still hate it. And today is just like every other Monday at this Chinese flip-flop manufacturer where you work. The manufacturing hall is just as unbearably hot–hotter than the machine that cakes the rubbers into their formatted shapes—and it t swarms with german […]
Tade stared with longing at the petite lady at the front of the queue. He felt like gliding through everybody sandwiched in the long line to the front where the lady stood. Lucky woman. His muscles tightened with the strain it took to stand so long; his legs quaked in exhaustion, joining the on-going revolt […]
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Okwukogu was a perennially restless man. His job made him restless. He hardly had time alone to himself at the office. Despite being the boss, he felt he was not in control, and everyone was plotting against him. His car made him restless. There was not a week that passed that the damned chunk of […]
continued from Episode 11 It is hard to believe that after such a long time, Kelvin is seating across the table from me at Jevinik. I remember the first time he brought me here, I thought he looked great then. He looks great now, better than I remember, and he hasn’t aged a day. […]
**Readers’ note below the post In Episode 1 Kaitlyn plays Dr Phil and discovers two things: Kelvin is in love with her. Kelvin’s message sounded urgent … I didn’t understand what he meant and so I asked. He said he had feelings for me and had had them for a while. I freaked out; […]
… continued from Episode 10. **Present day** I step out from the taxi and make my way into Jevinik. My tummy growls; what is left of my lunch break had better be enough time to fill it up. Today I did not take any files along, as I usually do, to get extra work done […]
It’s raining again today, like it did yesterday and the day before. Rainy days are signature of June, my birth-month and the month I finally walked away. Childhood in the Beluah temple cast some indelible marks in my life. Shadows that followed me where ever I went. The temple where father was a priest was […]
