Fortunatus Eze

“ "My coat of many colors".” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #145

CW: Mention of death.To nobody specifically:Ok! ok! ok!Enough of this...She calls it all fashionAnd I call it a clowns costume.I think I will need some audiences to judge this case.Question: What's that one thing you had rather prefer to choose all by yourself as a little kid ( say yours )?Answer: For me.. it was my clothings.I believe a majority will agree with me on this.In my attic...I find this piece of colored coat in a box. Mom had insisted i wear this coat to her friend's party in the city.I remember vividly.Had I gotten the guts at t...

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“ A cat and A Dog uniting.” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #143

You remember the old saying. "why are they always fighting like cats and dogs". Used to explain two people quarrelling or opposing each other over an issue. But really. Why are these animals ( dogs and cats) used in such statement to represent a negative situation. Or is it the case that Cats and Dogs truly see themselves as enemies and loved to fight each other all the time??.Let's get to know.Dogs and Cats obviously have nothing much relating to eachother, but only a few physical features ( four legs, a tail, whiskers etc). Their instincts...

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“ Moth orchids” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #143

CW: Mention of death and some serious medical condition."Plants are God's given gift to humanity".- Mom usually said when she tries to convince me on letting her get another new plant in the house.She stood at the botanist shop, happy to get a new house plant, making it her sixth plant just this year. Mom was an avid lover of nature obviously. In every month of every year, she visited the botany shop to get a new plant in order to replace the already dryed and lifeless one in the house. Many a times, I quarreled with her, for not paying prop...

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“ "On my last visit to the library"” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #142

Honestly, I do not remember the last time I visited the library since I moved from my old apartment in Florida State to live in Arkansas as a kid. I guess it was at age 8 or 10 not too sure. Well doesn't matter, my father had decided at the time, that we give up on our old cramped apartment for a new spacious one that would be fit to accommodate our six members family to live in comfort.However, i do remember and possibly will never forget even at age 110 (by then, already struck by the aging curse of dimentia), how the interiors of a librar...

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“ Who's your guide?” by Fortunatus Eze

" Oliver, you can have this. It's a perfect guide- book to teach you all about relationships".- said Mr. Harry Warry.He handed me a sizeable novel, titled "in the spirit of romance", written by a French writer ( a name I brutally murdered while pronouncing)."honueé d' orfeee'". When Its real pronounciation is "Hon- o -re d' ur-fe" as in "Honore d' urfe".He had carefully selected it from one of the high wooden book shelves (the third to be precise) in the library.Earlier on, he had approached me, where I sat at a corner of the huge library lo...

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“ "The one star reviewer". ⭐” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #141

CW: contains some abusive words.Notice: This story doesn't aim to portray "critics" as bad reviewers. In some cases if necessary, Critics are very important to any writer who wishes to publish a book. They can serve as a guiding light to a writer's piece of work for the best interest of his readers.----- The Laptop beeps twice. A new message has come in. It's certainly a feedback from one of my readers, about my recent online story.- I thought. I sprinted out of the bathroom, wrapped around in a white towel and with a tooth brush in my mouth...

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“ "Eye Witness"” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #140

CW: contains scene of gun violence and robbery." I remember.." - I said finally. Turning to face the two well- suited detectives, already seated in our living room, interrogating dad and mom over the incident that happened three nights, prior to this day. The case seemed to have taken a whole lot out of them, both their time and energy. Making them look pale and weary, almost to the resemblance of a "zombie character" like in the popular " Z's nation" Hollywood show .The detectives were still in the process of trying to find a concrete expla...

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“ Mathematricks” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #136

It wasn't up to an hour when Tommy was invited into the principal's office to receive his report card, and on leaving the office he seemed a bit dismayed and restless while heading for the exist door in the school hallway. He looked up saying " O God why!,Why can't I just be better at it" -referring to his mathematics grade. He was still facing upward until he had come out of the hallway, now standing on the staircase outside the building, receiving the fierce jabs of ray from the blazing sun that turned his face reddish in an instant. He wa...

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“ " Bravery is an act, not a mere utterance"” by Fortunatus Eze

Submitted to Contest #135

Quote: "A Coward's Courage is in his tongue"- Edmund Burke.CW: Contains scene of bloody Elements and gun violence.Growing up in a town where stories of Heroes are upheld in high esteem, and going forward to telling it to the younger generation was one of the best moment of my childhood life. I used to seat with my dad outside our spacious compound while he made the fire, adding bunches of dried sticks to keep the fire going, while telling me stories of great men and women who by their courageous act have brought a change into their respectiv...

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