Kingsley Alfred

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“All in a Woman's Struggle” by Kingsley Alfred

Submitted to Contest #27

The evanescent oval moon had just completed its cycle to become the long awaited full moon after a skirmish with the darkened clouds. The people of Ekori community believed that after the monthly tug of war, the clouds would release enough oil that supplied light to the stars through the next full moon.  On nights like these, the people stood outside their huts to admire heaven’s lamp and talk about the woman trapped in the moon because of her refusal to honor the goddess of the sky, Atai. The woman is rumored to have been pounding on a...

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“Etcetera” by Kingsley Alfred

Submitted to Contest #22

ETCETERAAnother Christmas! It’s either someone in the background was singing the infamous Auld Lang Syne or they were dancing to Could I, would I, should I? Edet was among the people in between. He had soon become inured to the last moan that escaped a dying man’s breath that sooner than he had expected, he secretly wished he could be entertained by the haunting melody of his patient’s last breath. All of a sudden, he would hang around the emergency ward like bad odor looking at the doctor’s patients as they grasp for breath, struggling...

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Author bio

Alfred Kingsley writes from Calabar, Nigeria below the capes of this coastal region and shares experiences from his spell as an educator, speaker and writer. He seams years of accumulated experiences into thousand strings of very calculated words seasoned with intent to break the hedonistic lifestyle of young adults.