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I placed my hands on my head as tears flowed down my face. My mum passed the pathway that led into the bush. I followed. We parted ways. I heard a cry and turned back to see a black pussy cat. I screamed. I drew back and staggered as I hit a tree stump. The cat fixed its large yellow eyeballs on me. I turned to run as I remembered the story my mum told me about pussy cats. Since then, I never dreamed of seeing cats. Finding my sister was my priority, so I waved my hands at the cat but it cried more. I looked into the eyeballs of the cat. It ...
Sophia entered her house with a frown on her face."Welcome home. How was school? Let me see the picture?" Precious said.Sophia unzipped her bag and poured its content on the floor. Precious took a picture from the pile of books."You don't want me to see the picture. Why?" Precious stared closely at the picture. "Where are you? Didn't you take the picture with your classmates?""I did. I'm hungry. Where is Dad and Mum?" Sophia took her school bag and went inside the house."They travelled today."She changed into a casual dress, entered the kitc...
A little black finger was raised toward the sky. "Mummy! See the cloud" "I can see that. The weather is getting dark. Hurry up, honey" People were rushing to their houses. Shop owners were closing rather early because of the weather. Children were being dragged by their parents on their hands and Hannah wasn't an exception. dirt and sand were raised from the ground into the eyes of people. Trees were dancing and everything moveable was moving. Hannah and her mum arrived at their house. Patience pushed her daughter inside who was looking up. ...
John was a nine years old boy in elementary school.He grew up with his father and mother who was an engineer and an hair dresser respectively.He was the only child of and beloved by his parents.John was preparing for school while his parents were preparing for their various places of work."Dad,I need a new lunch box.Please,can you get me one when returning from work today", Jerry spoke respectfully."What happened to that?",his dad asked and pointed to a lunch box on the floor."It's torn and old. I've been managing it but I can't any longer",...
Living souls were in their various churches to appreciate God for keeping them alive to see New Year.During the first Sunday of the year, churches were filled with both members and non-members and the latter include people who had not attend church for months.They went to church with their dancing clothes and shoes.Moses,was in church, which was not only because today was the first Sunday of the year but in order to obey the commandment of God to keep the Sabbath day holy.He was one of the members of the choirs and a committed christian.The ...
Janet and John were twins, the former was a female while the latter was a male,whose parents died when they were still in high school.They had been feeding from hand to mouth since they became orphan.The twins did things together, loved and encouraged each other.The twins dreamt of becoming great in life despite the bad misfortune.Their parents advised them to persevere and work hard which is the key to success.They grew up with the words of advice from their parents and promised never to deviate from them.Janet and John were cartered for by...
I grew up in a rustic and simple community which was surrounded with bushes.As a child,I lived in a hut built with thatches with my parents and siblings, and likewise every member of my community.I remembered when snakes and scorpion would enter our hut, but never bit anyone, those animals were common in my community as a result of the thick bushes and water that surrounded us.My siblings and I would see millipede inside our clothes, sometimes,we sought for grasshoppers in the bushes .There was no toy in my community but sticks was used in p...
Francisca sat on the bed with a baby on her lap.She thought if Forgiveness could suppress the true belief of sowing and reaping.Her look depicted her as a woman of sorrow and she looked older than her age because of much weeping.'I hope that you are going for the national identification number (NIN) registration at the Town Hall', a male voice spoke'Yes but I don't want to lose you','But don't you pity me or am I your accomplice of what you did years back.All our babies are just dying despite the huge money we spent.May that baby survive cau...
The world is turning. God is all perfect and gave His creature a bit of His perfection. God gave man the wisdom to create things but man had refused to pay reverence to Him. People had forgotten the creator and worshipped His creation. God need man to always respect and acknowledge Him at all time and that is why some certain things happen in order to draw us back to our creator. Man had turned themselves to slaves of the social media. Man turned social media to their God. The day opened with Tina on the bed. Tina rolled away her blanket,yaw...
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