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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Over Mesmerized

Philip Ebuluofor

“ All these ones with vegetables, are they like this truly or is it just pictures?” “ Everything in that menu is exactly as they were in real life. Just order and see for yourself” “ With amount of the vegetables in it, the price most be something else” “ That number you saw with RMB behind it is the price for each plate” “Are you sure? Even with a chicken laps as big as this?” “ Why not order and see them life. You are still watching pictures” Mr. Johnson and his guest at the air port restaurant. Mr. Joe his guest had just arrive from N...

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Unknown Messenger

Philip Ebuluofor

I woke up around 2:30 am in a foul mood. I wasn't even aware of the time, I had thought it was 5 am till I eyed the bedside clock. There wasn't a struggle of any kind in that dream, nothing like sweat, screaming, or a sign of any struggle.      Just the kind of dream that leaves one annoyed with things and people around him. The kind that takes one by force down memory lane. What the trigger for heading that lane in a dream instead of physical was, I don’t know.  Nothing in my physical warranted such at le...

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Acute Shortages

Philip Ebuluofor

I wasn’t actually used to such sight. I wasn’t living with my family when they moved back to the city after the civil war. I was sent to live with another family based In another town when they rejoined my dad in the city.  In the village when I began to notice things, we had a big concrete water tank that serve us well into another rainy season during dry seasons. The knowledge I had from fetching water from the stream during dry season is scant but I can distantly recall being there one morning with my mother and siblings. I ...

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Society Full Of Obtainers

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #159

Arithmetic? – Ah, I am not good in that at all. When it comes to measuring distance, I found it too difficult to do. Most of the times, when am stuck in the issue while talking to someone, I try to measure in my head the distance between two electric poles and what I wanted to say.      “Emm, about two or three electric poles” That is always my answer to distance questions. That’s if am talking to close acquaintances. But if the person doesn’t fall into the category of a friend or acquaintance, I will supply gues...

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Shortages Of Common Sense

Philip Ebuluofor

I have seen a lot of dubious characters in my life. I don’t even know if dubious would be the appropriate word in describe the character my neighbor Mr. lucky had been exhibiting for close to three years now. I have no doubt that the man has attitude and moral problems.       Why wouldn’t he? – people without scruples always have attitudes and moral problems. I really don’t know Mr. lucky that much for I had been away from this my community for long. When I was here, he wasn’t living here. Just like most of th...

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All In The Name Of Aquaintance

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #158

“This is for you, and this for me. These two sticks for you, this one stick for me” “ Why do you give me two sticks more and took one?” “ What would I ever do to be fair?” “ What you would ever do to be fair?—you should know” “ I should know? I gave you two extra sticks and kept one and yet you are complaining” “ So, in your heart, it was to be fair you gave me two extra sticks and kept one for yourself. Humm, good of you. I asked; if it were to be another thing beside cigarette, would you have given me more than you take?” “Beside cigarette...

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If Wishes Were Horses And Horses Wishes...

Philip Ebuluofor

Mr. Roberts Jiri is the chairman of Igaa town's union meeting Onitsha branch. He seems to be one of those few that came into this planet with a special gift so pronounced that all acknowledged it. Without any effort from him, he mastered or rather the act of public speaking rinsed in local idioms and proverb mastered him. He can hold and sustain interest and attention when speaking in public.  He is just 5’5 in height, fair in complexion, relatively well to do and married to one of the beautiful woman Igaa town has to offer. That se...

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My Jolly Jolly Good Friend

Philip Ebuluofor

My classmate Cosmas was one of those jolly good guys I have told you about before. Among those jolly good guys of that my secondary school set, there is always the best among equals. I am sure Cosmas was the person holding that title then.  “ Best jolly good guy of the mid 80s”  At times, I used to wonder how a guy of that age his father or mother is his best enemy copes. How do the home remain a home and not a house.  This my jolly good guy Cosmas was in the same class and the same corner at the dormitory with me in...

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Forces Of Adversary

Philip Ebuluofor

It’s true that when certain forces set their eyes on you, most of the time, your peace, enthusiasm flies out of the window. That’s what you are going to see happened in this story I will narrate to you. I think I have to start from the very beginning for you to understand it well.  I think that I consider myself a bookish fellow. I have been reading since my first year in secondary School. You might say that I started late, but I really swim in them from that year. I think also that it was from that period that I started reading and...

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Number One Enemy

Philip Ebuluofor

“We are running out of time. We have a ton to cover this semester. I want every hands to be on deck or your locker whatever as long as it is not in your pocket. No time”  That was our economic subject master Mr Charles Okiro on one of his numerous vibrations he usually starts his class with. We used to wonder when Secondary School students has choice of time in any school setting in Nigeria. Our duty was to sit on our various positions and mop and nod along with the teaching until the master decides that it is time to call it a day....

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Manure City

Philip Ebuluofor

The whole country was virtually turning into latrine. Waste garbage everywhere and it’s evident that the authorities have been overwhelmed by them. Then came this young military guys that took over power, they came with this declaration that last Saturday of each month must be made a clean up day.  “Everyone must stay in their houses to clean all places from inside your houses to the whole compound and each state and local government authorities must enforce this declaration and any offender is liable for fine or imprisonment” ...

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Commanders Of Their Father's And Their Husband's Houses

Philip Ebuluofor

They had been married for about four and half years without an issue. It has not been easy for both. I said for both because the man is enlightened enough to realized that the problem is from him. Outside that knowledge, ha!, It would have been the usual African utterances in such situation from the never do wrong male folks, their mothers and sisters.           “ I can’t marry my fellow man and live in the same house with him. When I came to your father’s house to ask for your hands i...

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When A Sociologist Turned Into A Quarter Doctor

Philip Ebuluofor

My roommate Mr. Clifford Mkpom was among the batch B national Youth Service Corps members that met us the batch A group during my youth service year. He is one of those jolly good fellows that any sound person would like around him.  The world and it’s inhabitants has gone fully crazy that seeing someone that exhibits any sense of decorum is regarded as something else. This generation is for sure a crooked one so credit should always go to the effort behind such upbringing, who the is behind it.  In the local government I was p...

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Computer Gardens

Philip Ebuluofor

Humans, you have certainly evolved into what you are today. I am wondering naively if your locomotive abilities are far behind what the saints, Lucifer and God possess. Talking about the last two beings humans, didn’t Lucifer made it clear to Adam and his missus that if they eat from the central tree that it’s more life to them instead of more death God warned them of ah. Not that am questioning who was doing more of manipulating there in that garden or who was doing more of lying. Heaven forgive me if I ever for once thought God a lia...

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Dark Nights

Philip Ebuluofor

Light flickered and a sound like that of sachet water bursting followed.  “ This is reason I always test the bulbs before handing them over to the customers” “ Why did it burst like that, is it over current or what?” “ Over current? Nah, this is what we are suffering from in this line of business. You order one carton of bulb containing 250 bulbs inside. Before you finish selling the carton, you would have about 50 or more damaged bulbs out of the 250” “ Why continue dealing with the company?, change to another company” “This firm is ...

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