Chiamaka Obinna-Chukwu

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“Restitution” by Chiamaka Obinna-Chukwu

Submitted to Contest #66

I look to the sand-clock tensely. It's almost half empty. Think halfway full, Bernice. I mentally smack my palm against my forehead in silent chastisement. I can’t be a walking box of pessimism while attempting to combat pessimism itself. I’ll never win that way. A darker thought still challenges the optimistic counsel, and I scoff aloud. Who is to say that I'm combating pessimism anyway? That's awfully right-thinking of me. I also can't afford to be totally rid of my despair, not when I'm not yet entirely sure if life itself is not, ind...

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I'm a 2nd year medical student at the University of Lagos, Lagos state, Nigeria. In between acing in-courses and struggling to meet up with lab deadlines, I breathe life into enthralling new worlds on paper.