Oluoma Akpotohwo

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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“After Waiting ” by Oluoma Akpotohwo

Submitted to Contest #49

              AFTER WAITING It rained throughout the night but reduced to a drizzle the next morning. Surprisingly, the sky was very clear and she could even sight the sun rising. It was almost as if the rain, the sky and the sun were fighting. She remembered Grandma used to say the rain and the sun fought but later agreed to co-habit. It was today, after a long wait, the D-day had finally come and she must not be late or she would have to wait long for her turn.  &n...

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“GHOST (The Shadow in the Dark)” by Oluoma Akpotohwo

    I never knew death could come in many ways until my life ended and the last chapter was splattered in different newspapers, the broken heads of Efe and Maro my kid brothers, my step Mum’s battered naked body though blurred but visible, then my father’s butchered hands and chest, the only person missing was me. I was supposed to be there but Grandma had delayed my travel. Then the final sentence of the last chapter of my former life ended with Grandma’s death. I did not die physically but I died mentally.   A...

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“WAITING” by Oluoma Akpotohwo

Submitted to Contest #25

                      For the first time in four years, her New Year’s resolution had changed from ‘I must keep waiting’ to ‘I will stop waiting.’ It was not an easy decision but she wanted to start all over again, she wanted to be alive again, she wanted to accept that he would never come back, she wanted to forget the hurt and pains of waiting every year and looking through her window every night hoping he would show up.“He’s not c...

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