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IT WAS NEVER STEVE

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      Paulo finished the plate of yam and beans he ordered and he pushed it down with a bottle of chilled coke. He remembered the discussion the women in the Salon were having. He went to fix an electrical fault in the wiring of the salon and the duration of his work lasted long enough for him to hear their discussion and little gossips.   The fat woman, next in line started the discussion about men who cheat on their wives and children. Another skinny woman who just entered said “it is not a new thing that men now cheat with small boys’. The Igbo woman that was having her hair washed exclaimed “Eh! Chineke God! Boys!?”       “Yes now. Mama Ejiro, the woman that sells firewood at my junction caught her husband red handed with her son’s friend” the woman said “they said she scarred him and threw his things out. It was the vigilante in the area that saved him that day”       “Are you kidding me?” The hairdresser exclaimed ...
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DARK CRESCENDO

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   Dinner was at a restaurant he chose himself. He booked  the whole restaurant that evening. Scented candles burnt lighting up the atmosphere. The table cloth was maroon and fresh flowers were at the centre of the table. It looked like something in the romance movies. I know we both glowed.   I remembered when I first met him, the way I disliked him because I felt he was showing off what he had and I think my dislike for him made him like me. He didn't allow anyone attend to him at the counter. No matter the length of the queue in front of me, he'll wait till I attended to him. , Sandra my colleague at work told me  he liked me and we would eventually fall in love. I disagreed and she said "you just wait and see"    And here I was at Embers smiling and dining with him. I was a simple girl hanging out with a rich boy. I didn't like to accept gifts from him and this made him upset. Well, he looked more handsome when he's upset. His large eye...
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UNSEEN

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UNSEEN   The weather was cold and the sky looked pale, it was wailing in nature's baritone. I adjusted my bag pack and glanced at my wrist watch. It was just 9pm and the streets were already quiet.   I walked down recalling what happened  earlier at the camp I visited. The way the dogs barked wildly behind me and what the old security man said to me when he came to calm the dogs down. "They see things we don't see." He said to me.  " Ok? things like..." I replied "Supernatural things, spirits" he said. I smiled at him in disbelief and replied " wow! That sounds interesting"  He stopped what he was doing and looked at me then he nodded his head and said " You won't know. The director is waiting for you inside"   I thanked him for calming the dogs and I went to meet the director.    I reached my apartment and unlocked my door. Two cats ran out. What! I had no cat and I sure didn't leave my windows open. How did...
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VILLAINOUS

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   I stood by the kitchen window in the kitchen admiring the maize I planted in a run of Milo, an assignment I was given in school. It was already 15cm tall and it danced happily in the cool even breeze. If I only I was a plant too...  Pim! pim! Father was back from work already. I rushed to the sitting room to arrange whatever was not in place. My father was like a raging bull and an all powerful god. He did as it pleased him, he had no room for weakness of any kind. I rushed and opened the gate for him and he was already fuming before I came. I rushed to the car to get his bag from the back seat. "Good afternoon sir" I greeted him.   "What were you doing that you left me outside?" He said without answering my greetings. "Sorry sir" I said as I closed the door to the car. I hurriedly took the bag to his room and came back to give him some water to drink.   "Bring me a bottle of Orijin" he said without even looking at me or the water ...
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