Godwin Efu - Writer on Reedsy Prompts

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A Child Till Now

Submitted to Contest #95

Silly GraceLife had been good to him so far. His father was a wealthy politician and his mother, an entrepreneur. Massi was the last child of a family of three siblings, two of which were women and married. Till the age of twenty-nine, Massi had had no interest in women. Not that he was a misogynist. There never was any real reason for him to enter a relationship. At least, his smart mother assured him when the time came, he would know.As stated, Massi did not hate women. But this was with the exception of his sister in-law. She was a nosy g...

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The Clattering Plates

Godwin Efu

Submitted to Contest #72

ONE Embarrassment"He's dated 2346475 girls... And still counting. Of course, that's overestimated but really he's dated a lot," Rachel whispered to her friends Faith, Tola and Abigail, and leaning forth while she spoke. She said " lot" with bigger emphasis.They were in the school cafeteria, eating or specifically doing "the usual thing:" talking about boys. Or not. More correctly, talking about a boy.The hall hummed with the sparse murm...

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The Prodigal Son

Godwin Efu

Submitted to Contest #70

ONE"Mama, I'll be fine," Nancy said, and as always, it made her mother cry. "I know, I know," her mother said. She wringed a weak pitiful smile that she always smiled. And again as always, she turned her face, wiping off her tears. Slowly, Nancy's mother rose from the bed and began to check on the IV, then to the screen of the system for her vitals. Michael, Nancy's eighteen years old brother sat observing them on the far corner of the room. His little sister was as sick as to require a lifetime stay in the hospital. Their father h...

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The world would have been a boring place without books.
*A Review of Julia Quinn’s “The Duke and I”*

By: Godwin Efu

_"I particularly adore the subtlety Julia Quinn summoned up in carving this out: the rejection of a child because they are who they are. The immature and sudden exposure of children to the truth of how viscious we humans can be before or perhaps instead of how loving the same can be. Sometimes, villains are characters who have half knowledge of the two sides of humans. They understand so much the wickedness buried beneath people that they adopt equal response toward all. It is a sad, sad thing..."_

*In our latest, Godwin Efu reviews Julia Quinn's The Duke and I. Read here:* https://link.medium.com/rdk9zCRySeb

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