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Naomie K

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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"I Know Who He Is"

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #58

I was busy doing what Executive secretaries do when I saw ma’s call. It wasn’t like her to call me during work hours, so I was apprehensive when I picked up the call. Somehow my radar picked up that this was neither a social call nor a good call. “Mama everything alright?” “Kabo, its baba, something’s wrong…something is definitely wrong with him...” My name is Naikabo but everyone calls me Kabo. Now my parents have the warmest relationship and I knew for a fact she wasn’t talking about their relationship. It had to do with his he...

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You've been Tagged

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #56

FACTS · 43% of singles say fresh breath matters most before a date · Nearly 40% of men do not feel confident meeting a woman for the first time · Before a man speaks a word, the way he stands (or whether he is slouching or not) counts for over 80% of woman's first impression · 1 out every 4 blind dates is successful ****** Phaustine I am a gambling man, but even for me this might be more reckless than daring. Regardless...I prefer to think of it as high risk/high retu...

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16 December 2013

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #55

Rostine felt like a million dollars this morning. There was a marked bounce in her walk. Her clothes were starting to feel tight, which meant she had stopped looking emaciated. Rohan walked in. “Morning everyone” Rostine was the only one who looked up. Rohan looked sharp as always. She decided to give him 2 minutes to settle in before she went to him with her customer service query. “Hey, sorry to bother you but if we don’t do something about Mark Holdings’ bandwidth, we shall lose them.” “Sometimes a loss is not such a bad thing, e...

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"Can it be Right?"

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #54

Aireth sighed again. She wished her mother had been able to come on this critical mission. What a shame! She recalled the last conversation they had. She kept replaying that tape in her mind. Her mother had told her never to call her again about making peace with Jovinus. She simply did not care. She was truly her mother’s daughter. Aunt Gertrude started singing again, this time ‘Rock of Ages’. Aireth and Mama Komba joined her and they belted out the hymn. It calmed their nerves.Komba pretended to be asleep. Even though he was a believe...

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Paying for Salome

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #53

Bhoke took her time to dress. This was the only official time she could dress for Godson. She did not waste such golden opportunities. At least the family was back to attending Church. The third week in a row! She was ecstatic! The lockdown had started driving everyone insane in the house. Godson loved her legs, so she was going to wear the new Ankara short skirt she had stitched. The patterns were bright and now that she had added some weight, the skirt held her in all the right places. Yellow always made her look bright and it matched th...

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Liberatus the Libertine

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #42

Liber was stuck. He didn’t know what to do. The last time he and Bosco had spoken, Bosco had told him off. He had never seen his friend so disappointed in him. Bosco had read him the riot act and walked out. He had made it clear that if Liber didn’t clean up his act, he shouldn’t bother contacting him.This had hurt more than any other friendship Liberatus had ever lost. In fact, Liberatus was yet to love a woman as much as he loved and cared for his friend Bosco who was like a brother to him. He had always been there for him. Liberatus could...

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Your Stars

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #39

Jyoti was looking at the stars again. Did that girl never learn? Her convictions made me think of her like an animal that was so used to being caged, that it did not realize it could walk out of the cage anytime. The animal had the power all along but they thought someone else did. She was in a self-inflicted prison. A victim of her own convictions if you like. She was so confined by her confidence in the star signs that I simply wanted to shake her until she stirred or something. I did not. I smiled, she shrugged and I walked away. It was a...

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“A friend left the door open and was lucky, doesn't mean you should”

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #38

I had been peeping outside my window now for the last hour. Still no sign of Siku. With the heavy rains, I couldn’t just dash over to their house even though her mistress was away! Besides, if I did, I would have to carry little Exavier around now that he had discovered crawling and was now all over the place! Leaving him behind was no longer an option, now that schools were closed and Wilson would report me to my mistress. Where was Siku? I sat back down and continued to watch my favorite tamthilia (soap)This season it was like the floodgat...

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Every Dog has Its Day

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #37

Manka could hardly contain her shock and excitement. This week was on to a wonderful start! Ima was acting like he had been -around the moon twice and what was the big deal- as usual, while her thoughts were busy doing cartwheels. It reminded her of the movie Inside Out. All the emotions were tripping over each other in the HQ. Walking back to the office was going to need all her acting skills. She would not be able to walk back without saying hi to all ‘her peeps’ along the way. After all, they didn’t nickname her ‘mayor’ for nothing now di...

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All I need is Time

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #36

Saturday, April 07, 2007; 2100hrsoh the pain of lovingoh the misery I go thru ….you just can't stand seeing me happy ....still I go on loving youI cannot seem to stop playing this song over and over in my mind. Maybe I should just listen to it first..2200hrsI have been listening to the song on repeat. Tears streaming down my cheeks. Oh the pain, oh the pain. The agony. Can’t even see my keyboard now. Perhaps I should take a shower and go to sleep.2400hrs Sunday, April 8, 2007; 0001hrsIt’s midnight? Oh wait a minute… its already tomorrow, I m...

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Passing it Forward

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #36

November 02, 2018Got the temporary pass, Uwiii!!! Mweeh!! Yes! I cannot believe it. I couldn’t believe when auntie Navina said I could travel! I mean I have always dreamt I could travel, and I even entertained the thought once that perhaps one day my auntie might sponsor my travel, but they were just wishes. When she mentioned this casually 3 weeks ago, I assumed it was the usual thing that people always do to me. I did not even allow myself to think about it. I hoped that she meant it (after all she’s good people and very different from all...

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The Posta Park

Naomie K

Submitted to Contest #35

The rainy season was finally over. This time it had rained so much that the damage was still evident. There were now some massive potholes on most roads. Musa had really missed his usual evening walk due to the constant heavy rains. In addition to that was the ever-present danger of catching that deadly virus. Musa had been forced to stand on the building sidewalks for hours waiting for the human traffic to reduce in order to take a BRT bus (Rapid Bus Transport) home and still keep his social distance. In fact, Musa was still surprised ...

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