Regret: The Things you should have known
“Just remember, if you need to use the bathroom, ring this little bell and I’ll be here in a flash,” Freddy said to me. His smile was warm and friendly, and his touch reassuring, but I felt belittled. It felt like the whole universe had finally taken a dump on...
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Nine Lives
Nine days for the thief and one day for the owner of the house... The words surfaced from nowhere and germinated in the back of my mind like unwanted weed. I wasn’t sure where I had heard them but it was surprising how it emerged when it was least needed....
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Letting Go
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
"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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Contemplations
The old man in agbada was winking at me. I tried to ignore him, since scowling at him was yielding no result. He probably thought I was another one of those young girls he could deceive. I wonder about those girls, and how they manage to see past his pot...
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Blurred Image
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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Letting Go, 2
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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Before Letting Go
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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The Life and Times of a Successful Middlechild: The Bad Guy
“Right, let’s keep buttering him up with compliments, especially every time we want to flash him his minimal profit margin… You know we can’t lose him. Keep him high on that horse; this season’s indicators strongly lean towards a bull run, we can make back everything we lost anyway.” I...
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Before Letting Go 4
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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