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A weekly short story contest
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020
Submitted to Contest #88
Run! Run! Run! A pride of lions is coming to devour our cows, sheep and goats! run for your dear lives! shouted Mukonyo! the village fibster. Everyone in the village got into a frenzy, trying to save their domestic animals and their lives from the lions. Women running as fast as their thin legs would carry them and of course carrying their children on their backs and screaming on top of their voice! men trying to...
Submitted to Contest #55
Can you keep a keep a secret? Asked Maggie, my best friend and workmate. Of course you can trust me with your life! I answered back Promise you will not tell anyone what am about to tell you! Maggie was now shaking, I could tell she had doubts whether to tell me or not! She whispered her mysterious secret in my ears! what? No this can't be true? I shouted back at her in shock! Why did you do i...
Submitted to Contest #54
Mum I think you are too old to go back to school! Exclaimed my mother No! I answered, Grandma can still go to school and learn the English language she always loved. I will go to school, starting this coming Monday, said my granny. In fact today we have news reporters from the city coming to interview me because am the talk of the whole village, she added with a proud smile. My granny has al...
Submitted to Contest #52
Mother! Oh Mother as if it's not enough you had to come and spoil my wedding!! I shouted on the top of my voice. My mother was a single parent who was an alcoholic and at the same time had mental health issues. she raised me, her only child, under a very difficult situation, to say the truth I thank God am still alive. On this particular day, she had escaped from the rehabilitation Centre, I don't know how ...
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