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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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From Americo With Love

Philip Ebuluofor

I have this cousin from my paternal side that is what we call correct guy in late 80s and early 90s. He lived in America through their TVs. VCR was a thing of class then. Not sure if 30 percent of the families had one. Their father was a bit exposed. So, even though he wasn’t a match financially to my dad, he knows the importance of most household appliances my dad regards as irrelevant. So, they had this VCR player then in early 80s that drew old and young to their windows whenever it was on. They were in class of their own. ...

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Drivers, Conductors And Passengers Of Literary World

Philip Ebuluofor

I was sitting in my small corner in the prison factory that very day busied myself with self education strategy I fancied when Ogu trotted towards me with his thick wide black book. Those type I avoid mechanically whenever I enter the district library for books. They look to me like those yellow colored illustration Bible that was so common in primary schools in the 80s in Nigeria. Full of cartoon like drawings to aid the kids in assimilation. I never regarded those thick hard cover books as novels. They looked more to me like resear...

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Good For Thought

Philip Ebuluofor

“On the D-Day, all that would be Shaking would be Shaking and only those with tap root would remain” The quote is what is boldly written on the wall and files that Mrs. Rose Ikee and her dogs carry around and on their departmental wall. You can never see them without hugging the files and the quote on them like their second body. What the department she came from in the state house is called specifically, no ...

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He Quit His Name And Never Missed It

Philip Ebuluofor

“ You can guess, tell almost accurately what some of these toddlers would be when they grow up simply by observing them cry, shit, eat, play and sleep” Jane recalled like yesterday her mother making those statements eleven years ago when her son was only four months old. “ This one, only heaven can help. He is what I have forgotten it’s name. if he amounts to a half a million before his fiftieth year, it would be miracle of the century." She had continued over and over while cleaning the faeces Jimmy had released for the fifth tim...

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Birds Of the Same Feathers?: Here's How To Avoid The Burnout

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #137

“ Who is pouring that water, I asked who is pouring that water?” Mrs. Grace demanded in anger. Her husband came out of their tiny shop and peeked upwards and went back inside the shop. “It’s Mazi Okoro's house maid. If it were to be done by another person, the wife would have called for emergency meeting to seek for an explanation” he said and went back to his work. “ Some people for sure are not qualified to live in the city. If you can’t keep common communal rule, go back to your village. You simple not qualified to live in the city”...

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Heavenly Truth About War Anxieties

Philip Ebuluofor

She tossed right and left for the umpteenth time this very night, she is not sure she have slept for up to two hours in total this very night yet she couldn’t pinpoint exactly what it’s that is the cause. She is the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Okiro. Her father had been in import business as long as she could remember. In late 60s when what many believed was normal politicking of tribal leaders snowballed into civil war, her father had been a week in Equatorial Guinea where he buys hot drinks he sell in Nigeria and his fam...

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Prisoners Of Their Own Tales

Philip Ebuluofor

“ Debating society needs more extroverts more than introverts. It needs people that can argue even when they are not sure of what they are saying. Introverts don’t like arguing in public. So, we needs Blessing Okorie in that group”------- Miss Funke “ But I thought the most criteria should be having adequate knowledge of the subject matter not making uncoordinated noise in the name of arguments”----- Mr. Chris quipped. “ The advantage Blessing has over John is that she is not all that far away from John as far as intelligence goes and ...

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One Man's Meat

Philip Ebuluofor

“Soccer is played in football pitch, not cassava field” the coach said. Jerry and other players stood there in their sweat soaked jerseys mopping at him and wondering what he is getting at. The man had been the coach of their school now for three years and within that period, the team had not been performing. In fact, who he took over from had been far better than him. To think he was one of the outspoken advocate of change against the man was funny really. “I have been telling the management to do something about the state of the pitch ...

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Foshan Delectables

Philip Ebuluofor

Their plane touched ground around 8:38am that faithful Sunday night, he once again followed others like he has done since taken off in Lagos and in their transit in Bangkok. It was his first experience travelling by air. He doesn’t know the protocols involved or even the name of the papers in his hands, about five of them. Most of those papers were written in English and few in Ethiopian language the operators of aircrafts he booked. He wasn’t that good in asking strangers the purposes of the papers and where he is required to present each...

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Praying The Hannah Way

Philip Ebuluofor

I saw Gilbert Sono for the first time when I was in third year secondary School. He was one of those footballers my school hired as mercenary as we call them then. We were about the same age I guessed for we were all in the same class level. I was 13 and member of the school football team. School sports were serious thing in the 80s. Then, most, about 85 percent of the schools were still government controlled. Private schools weren’t many as they were now. So, organizing sports competitions were still easy for federal government to do un...

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The Rise Of Madam Kate

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #131

She is 65, around 5f 3. Dark and slim. Mrs. Kate Okorie had been a teacher in the kindergarten school run by the Catholic Church in my countryside town for maybe 15 plus years before calling it quits. She sat at a corner and smiled to those gathered there. It wouldn’t be exaggeration to say that almost all the generation x born in the five villages that made up St John’s parish received their nursery education from her. It would be nice to give you some little background gist on the woman. I am sure you have knowledge of whe...

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The Locked Door

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #130

My younger sister penny can be described as an introvert and timid. She doesn’t have any known friends as she matures into a young lady of . Some of her known friends had either been married and relocated or travelled abroad. She has turned into what I considers quasi-maid living with our aging mother. She foresees for the cleaning of the house and cooking for other 6 members of the family has relocated with their families to other states. The family house in the city was left in tact because, at times usually two years intervals d...

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Those From The Outside

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #129

What you are reading begun in middle class quarters of Guangzhou city in southern China. If you regards that city as a place for people that came with money heart, you’re right. I happened to know this because I am one of those people. Those that came with another reasons don’t enjoy that city like us. Guangzhou is for buying and selling people mainly not for salaried people. People there don’t wear coats like others from other cities, coat is not for hustlers. As am sure you have guessed well, where there’s buying and selling in that...

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John's Tea Debacle

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #128

“I wonders why he goes for something like this” John the priests servant murmured as he sets the table for morning meal. He had been living with the priest for three years now and since then, he had never seen him take any other type of tea but Lipton. He has tasted it on Many occasions the priest could not finish the one made for him and the taste had been awful. Tea spoon on the teacup facing downwards, sugar on the left side, bread at the center, butter by the left, hot water in the flasks and another green one ...

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Mr. Luke's self Sabotage

Philip Ebuluofor

He sat down on the chair placed outside the road safety commission's office boiling in anger. He felt like beating himself up for his stupidity. He was seriously wondering if he had not been the reason behind his own lack of advancement to the next level in life. Not actually that he is in the class referred to as classless, someone in the class refers to as third in badly managed economy like the Nigerians should be happy but, “is it not people born of women that were in the first?” He queried himself. “why for goodness sake must I ...

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