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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Mr Charles The Chemist

Philip Ebuluofor

When he was in primary school, he recalled that it was about two families that had dogs in his village. Not even his village proper, nearby villages. One was a chemist and the other a retired soldier. He could not recall any incident that warrants dogs as security means. He suspected now as he reminisced that those two figures were those that has mixed a lot with other tribes. Those dogs were just pets they returned to village with. Both even has nothing that warrants stealing accept their brain then. That was around 1978. Ima...

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Smart And His Musings

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #125

“ If I swear for you, if I dare swear for you ah, I tell you, you would never amount to anything in this world” That was usual line the of Smart Igwe's mother to him cum his siblings when he was in primary school. It seems to him as if that line of anger expression was passed down from generations to generations. He have heard it being used by his aged grandmother on everyone not just his grandkids. It has been the favorite line of his mother to all her seven kids. To think that Smart older and younger sisters started using the same line...

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Racial Union

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #124

Kandahar is relatively big province in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a nation everybody that is alive in this world knows. Yeah, I said if you are alive for if not for the pandemic, most of us don’t really know what is going on in our families let alone our neighborhood, nation and the world. I recall my days in service when they used to organize those Mr. and Mrs. camp like they call the competition. It is modelled after the miss world pageant where the organizers ask questions as braw and brain test to determine who is something outside mu...

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As It Is In The Loony Bin, So It Is In The Chambers

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #123

I heard that the people who found romance in the pages of Mills and Boon can’t speak the words of their own. I don’t know how true that assertion is for I don’t know Mills and Boon and I don’t know romance. If ever I am force to make a choice, I will for sure lean on the part of the assertion. How else would you explain the fact that almost all our public figures are victims of that very act, not only those in love or in search of it but our politicians should be the yardstick to measure that assertion if you are interested. President Ob...

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Misplaced priorities

Philip Ebuluofor

Tony sighed loudly and looked behind him to see his daughter sleeping and his son was frowning non-stop while his wife was fanning herself for an hour now. To avoid overheat, the car was switched off so, there was no AC. He brooded, he doesn’t want to add to their discomfort by apportioning blame for their predicament to his wife for the anger might be carried over to next week. He decided that they being stuck in the traffic jam only 30 minutes away from their family house after being on the road since morning is too annoying. The whole...

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Crazy shepherds

Philip Ebuluofor

“Thanks a lot, I appreciate your help” Miss Gloria said while eyeing the gate man from the corner of her eye. The gateman was murmuring to himself while going back to his shade near the gate. Mr. Fred has been in that work for ten years now. In his years there, the woman he just directed to the headmistress office is up there among the psychos he has seen looking for work there since he started working there. To think that three among the seven he have seen succeeded in getting teaching work there baffles him. He has wondered for th...

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My Mega Village

Philip Ebuluofor

Back in my day, the church compound didn’t have the one storey building the nursery and primary School pupils occupies now. Office hall for those seeing the priest every Tuesday used to stand there and a tree the church Bell was mounted on used to stand by its left too. Now, both are gone and the building covers everywhere. Even our sleeping quarters then is covered by the school building too. Four of us then that helps the priest used to sleep there, and the priest at the main building. There were six rooms of which we occupied...

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Baskets Full Of Torches

Philip Ebuluofor

“ Listen, we need lantern, the kerosene type. Not candle or blowtorch for this journey” Ada said. “ We don’t have kerosene, secondly I don’t see anything wrong with this blowtorch. Is it not what we use to go on this same expedition before?” Chika demanded. “ Don’t you notice the weather, how would you feel if in the middle of action and breeze were to blow out this your torch, can you see in the dark?” “ Then, why do you fail to bring one since it is what the weather demanded?” “ So, because I has none, that is reason for you not to have to...

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When Blood Is Thicker Than Water

Philip Ebuluofor

It sounds and seems that everything has spiritual meanings these days. Things that used to be normal to greater percentage of people has spiritual meanings to the same percentage nowadays. Could you imagine attaching spiritual interpretation to an ordinary act of pen slipping from someone’s hand to the floor? That is the situation we found ourselves in my community nowadays. I said my community in order not to confuse you. If you had been observant enough, you would have noticed the same in yours. Pen slipping to the floor is an indicato...

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Madam Akii And Her Privileges

Philip Ebuluofor

“ I suspect that they usually wait at the intersection of the boundary of the living and the dead, waiting for the days and hours the door would be opened to know if any of their family or village members are among the new entrants. How they know that the person or the ghost whatever they call themselves across the line of eternity, we humans wouldn’t know. Is coming, I don’t know. What we humans have ever do this side of the realm is guess and more guesses. Both educated and illiterates. We just guess. Each tribe and race has their own tale...

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Religious Conspiracy

Philip Ebuluofor

“You cannot be part of this set. Why all these months you didn’t indicate you’re an Anglican, now only a week to the occasion you are telling me what you would have done a month ago” “ But no one told me, secondly, I don’t know the protocol. Please, due consider him” “ No, it is against tradition. We are mandated to follow due process” “ So, what did he needs to do now?” “ I don’t know. He has to wait. I have to talk with the priests and see what he has to say” “You don’t know?, How then do you know it’s against procedure?” “ Don’t question ...

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When Waters Overwhelms Man

Philip Ebuluofor

Ever heard of little Taiwan of Africa? That was what Onitsha town was at least to the people who live in it. It became so since the coming of the whites in middle 19th century. Maybe it was because The famous River Niger passed through it or other attractions seen only by those who kept coming back to it, or maybe due to easy transportation access. When those it was initially their transit point started settling and opening shops, craft and all other manners of commercial activities in it, the town gradually turned into quasi city. ...

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When in doubt, wait for the details

Philip Ebuluofor

“ You wanna do something fun?” He asked as he kept throwing pebbles at her window. She opened the window, and there they were, three of them smiling up at her. “What’s the fun in this early disturbance?” Cherry asked. “ Answer first before asking. Do you wanna do something fun?” Albert demanded again. “ Your idea of fun, does it include anything illegal?” “ I don’t engage in anything illegal. But why do you prefer to answer questions with question?” “ There are even the type known as rhetorical that doesn’t demand answers. I like those ...

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Ghetto in One Continent, Rich Man's Quarters In Another

Philip Ebuluofor

Jim is an importer like most other Africans whose families devised a means of sending one member of their family to Dubai or China to be based there and be sending goods back and money remitted back to him and circle repeated again. They figured that almost two thousand dollars spent in each journey to these countries can be utilized in purchasing things instead of wasting it in air fare about five or six times yearly. But like most other African, Jim was finding stability a hard nut to crack in foreign land. The amount he came with as...

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His Ungrateful Highness

Philip Ebuluofor

Alahaji Musa Kee was the Secretary of Acheree local government in skiito State northern Nigeria. He hails from Acheree town too. In late 60s and early 70s, the town was second biggest city after the capital. The town just passed as a quasi city simply because foreign companies, two in fact set their base there. In fact, they were the only foreign firm to have ever set their base there and the foreign workers then, were the foreigners to have ever threaded on the soil to date. Cocoa cola and one Italian agric...

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