I was ten when it happened. I hadn’t been asleep for long when the noise and clattering began. It crawled into my subconsciousness, lingered distantly until it finally tugged me out of sleep, and I laid there, half-asleep in my yellow pajamas, besides my sister, who had marked her fifth year in the world just […]
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*LIFE AS I KNEW IT* Stand in front of a mirror, raise one arm high overhead, with four middle fingers flat, move gently in small circular motions over the entire breasts… That was the instruction on the leaflet. They had been sharing those two-page leaflets around my office for weeks. The cancer awareness group who […]
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The sun was scotching hot. I stood aside with my two year old twins and we watched as the Police and Court bailiffs brought out our property one after the other and filled it in their van. They were executing the judgment of the Court, they would auction off our property to pay the Landlord […]
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“Efe, are you gay?” Chioma was asking, naked in my teak wood king-sized bed, I thought she looked radiating. “No, I’m not gay.” She quirked a brow at me. “Then why won’t you cum?” she accused. “This is like the fourth time Efe!” I pulled my gray briefs up to my waist before lowering back […]
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