Time heals everything, they say. But no one speaks of what happens during that time. Everyone says it’ll pass. Everyone says it will be okay in the end. Perhaps it will, but right now, it is the greatest pain I’ve ever endured. Loving someone, and I mean loving someone won’t level off. What I mean […]
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Some wounds never heal, we just get used to them. We just learn to live with them and they matter less, but they’re there. It was a huge sadness that I had to overcome. It hurts. It hurts like I’m dying thousands of times every time I think about the day when I have to
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The night mom left It was a cold dark winter night like any other. I went to bed early, hoping to wake up refreshed for the day ahead. But when I opened my eyes, something felt off. The house was quiet, too quiet. I lay in bed for a few minutes, trying to shake off
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My eyes met his for the first time, through the caressing breeze and the warmth of harmattan, with the intoxicating aroma he brought. I thought destiny was why our paths came close and my time is near! To love, but I was wrong. He stood by the seashore, flexing his biceps and triceps, I’ll be
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Ayobola hurried into her room rummaged through her bag and brought out her phone, unlocking it, she swiped it up and clicked on Google and her fingers danced on the keyboard, typing ‘What is the meaning of AKUDAYA?’ and the result brought out; “A supernatural entity reputed to live on as incarnate being in a
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MEMORIES LIKE TULIP I looked into her eyes again, she had her usual long shining black hair and glaring brown eyes. She was, of course, used to smiling in such a way that her dimples would become visible and I’ve always loved the fact that I inherited that from her. Despite all this, I still
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Every dispensation has its struggle, differences and uniqueness. Ours seems to be more complicating as it stands to be a façade tinged with a mix of sadness and happiness. Yet I believe a destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent so as much as the world has an instinct for
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I used to think that someday I’ll fall in Love in a very Beautiful way Like,walking down the school hallway and we’ll bump into each other Then we would both bend to pick up the fallen books and continue staring at each other Or, it’s going to be raining and I’ll offer her my umbrella,
Then I woke up again, it was night but things were different again. I was back at the hospital, momma was at my bed side staring at me but I couldn’t tell her what I had seen but I was glad to see her. For the next few weeks, I was in two worlds not
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We lived in the deepest part of the western regions of Africa where the oil spilled generously, ‘The slums of Maduli’ to be precise. Where we laid our heads could not really be termed as an apartment, more of a grotto with 10 (ten) occupants, surrounded by free ‘Mosquito WIFI’ and a bed of stranded
