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Before Letting Go 4

Rachael Asikpo

This episode is in continuation from “Before Letting Go 3” Hey, pretty maiden in the garden…No! Too cheeky. Akpan slowed down. She’ll think I’m stupid. I wan form Shakespeare inside Nigeria. Akpan heard his own breaths. Keep it simple, Akpan. Akpan flexed his shoulders; he had already slowed to slow...

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Letting Go 3

Letting Go, 3

Rachael Asikpo

A sharp gasp in the bathroom. He paused and listened, slowly but surely two soft moans followed. He knew that moan anywhere. He had heard it a thousand times from different angles and in different positions. The sensation that followed was almost indescribable.

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Letting Go by Rachael Asikpo

Letting Go

Rachael Asikpo

I kept my eyes on the board, unseeing. My sight distorted and void with smeared colors representing the features of my environment. I could not see. Not because I was blind but because there were tears in my eyes. Mr Uchenna's voice was loud, his baritone so deep I feared...

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Before Letting Go 3

Rachael Asikpo

"I can just approach her. After all, she is my colleague. I can just walk over there and introduce myself." These were Akpan's thoughts, but it was a bad mistake...

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Bondage: Start Again by Rachael Asikpo

Bondage: Start Again

Rachael Asikpo

Blurb Mad lust and good looks bound her by her hands and feet, and whisked her over its shoulders. Wistfully, she smiled as she was carried away, unaware that she had just begun a journey that would leave her powerless. Follow Laura’s tragic journey back to light. Story “Next time,...

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Before Letting Go by Rachael Asikpo

Before Letting Go

Rachael Asikpo

Akpan moved his lips slow, licking to make them wet again. He glimpsed the other guys in the room without turning his head; no one was looking at him; Akpan was relieved. His spoon was at the ready in his pocket; it had been in his pocket all day, travelling...

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Letting Go, 2

Letting Go, 2

Rachael Asikpo

She had once been his for the taking. Once. He wondered what happened then. The past was a clutter of dawdled memories. He shook them off. He would focus on the Edima he saw today. How had she grown so beautiful over the years? Like an uninteresting shell, a cocoon...

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Rachael Asikpo

Blurb When love is naught but dashed hopes, and happily ever after is naught but a fleeting mirage, what remains is hurt and a longing for closure. This man was jilted by love, and finding closure can be a dangerous thing… Story I sit here completely lost, staring at the...

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