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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Square One

Philip Ebuluofor

Funny and fearful tales is what you hear 24 hours each day in some quarters here these days. Can't just understand why some people's lives are full of stories while some others are as dry as the Sahara desert. Not as if the people of milfe autonomous community are enjoying the type of story their lives are full of and from the look of things, those suffering from dryness are thanking heaven and asking for the drought to be permanent. That is what some people in the town of milfe can't understand. "Why me and why us" is the only thing droppi...

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Depositors

Philip Ebuluofor

The uproar was still high and rising every second. Many still cowering from the scene, the women folks seem to by their nature born for this kind of disorganization. There is no doubt that they are born amplifiers. Good actresses from the womb, but this time around, they were not acting out and their antics are not even enough in comparison with what lays before everyone on that Onitsha T-junction that dull October morning.  About eight dead bodies lay askew in haphazard manners. One still hanging from the window of the mini bus he wa...

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More Than Strange

Philip Ebuluofor

They named the elementary school compound as the avenue. Why they chose the interior village, no one knows. One thing Anthony has found out is that humans seem not to know what they really want. Those dwelling in the rural areas ogle city life and those in cities ogle rural areas. Human nature had been asking questions discreetly to know the reason behind such without success. He pegged it to humanity sickness. What they have doesn't move them, what they don't have draws them like a magnate even though that is too inferior to what they have....

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Village Burials

Philip Ebuluofor

 The groaning came from my mother after answering a phone call. I don't know who put  through. The groaning was growing in numbers and seems to be coming in rapid forms that period as she answers. I was sitting on the dining room table scribbling nothing in particular. I was just as usual whiling away time hoping to fall into a writing groove before seriousness will take over.  That seriousness seems to be my whiling away time as a ritual that summons it in from where I don't know. If those in the know I have not stamped it ...

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Eightieth Birthday

Philip Ebuluofor

   He marched into the church he last saw its interior about twenty-something years ago alongside about fifteen others he knows none among them. The church in its iconic history had been standing at that same spot since that very day the colonial masters laid its foundation in the first decade of twentieth century. Of course it has undergone countless renovations but nothing much has changed. He was there for an anniversary of his mother-in-law celebrating her eightieth birthday and her kids, some of whom were priest and rev...

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Watermelon

Philip Ebuluofor

Before the tail end of the first decade of this century, I had a mighty problem with the law that took more than a decade out of my life. I was sent to one international prison not far from my base then and handed 15 years. Not a funny year out of one's life. But, you can always see terms like that through whether you believe you can or not. Whether you have that spirit needed to see it through or not, it will be provided to you by forces beyond your control to divert your attention from thinking too much about your sentence. So, while ins...

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Intense To Mild

Philip Ebuluofor

  The tippers were dumping red earth and the tiny stones on two sets of heaps that John and Charles couldn't stop observing. They have practically forgotten where they were going and lost themselves in the amazement before them. Smirking and outright giggling were their lots for the better part of an hour or so. Dried weather was on their mild outing that Friday morning. "Do they say it's the commissioner building a new house or his brother?" John asked, still giggling that even Charles found it hard to hear him well."As you hear...

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Overflowing Gratitude

Philip Ebuluofor

  Many things, uncountable of them that I still recall to be grateful for in this my life. I know there are many I don't recall anymore and many I don't even know happened to me.  I have been shocked twice by electricity that was supposedly acute enough to send me out of this planet. And I still recall the first being in my year five in primary school and the second coming last year. I don't know who I am but I think I am that type of humans their God gives special instructions to the angels guarding them.  "look here, i...

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Strange Occurrance

Philip Ebuluofor

 The adage goes something like this: Only two things can kill a man. If you survive alcohol and women, you live to old age. Almost all the parents in this land have said something like that to their sons as advice. Yet, people still die of one of the two or two of the two. Officer dauda doesn't play with anything beautiful on skirts. Despite being married with two sons and a daughter, he still refused to retire his waist from away games. On that beautiful sunny morning of June two years ago, he was on his daily beat with his partner off...

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Insinuations

Philip Ebuluofor

It's their way, it has always been the way of humans all over the world. It has no particular race or tribe as its core customer even though many believed it has some people as its ardent apostle than others.  Maybe it's true or maybe not, I don't know, and I don't care that much. I made it my headache to worry about anything that warrant worrying about to the extent of my adding it in prayers or losing night sleep over it my priority. This story isn't one of those. It's the issue of the guilty seeking for where to rest their case or ...

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Mighty Work

Philip Ebuluofor

He sat on the only chair in his room staring for the upteenth time at the mail he received thirty minutes ago in his phone. The work he thought is up there with the best has been rejected once again. The ninth this month and the month is still young. He eyed the ceiling for the hundredth time within thirty minutes, in fact, his eyes had automatically fixed on that ceiling non shifting since thirty minutes that he can describe all the regular and irregular lines on it so easily with eyes closed. The day is the 13th of the month and there are ...

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Insulting The King

Philip Ebuluofor

I heard it when most did. They had found the bull wandering around and treashing farms and crops in them.I went along with some of our  village young men to go and see things and these marauders for ourselves. The herdsmen or whatever popular cattle rearers from the northern part of the country are known as have done it again. This time it was that they wiped away the whole village in the neighboring community not far from ours, when they tried to prevent their free roaming bulls from damaging their farm products. When we got there i...

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Charging Cafe

Philip Ebuluofor

The light have been off now for about a week plus. Tony okolo has decided that he is not going to be the one again writing to any authority. It have become one too many on his part. "Let these maggots run their strength out" he murmured to himself when the light was finally restored and his, not among them. He knew that some touts controlling the city have found him an avenue to control the city and the psychology of the sound ones in it. But he is not going to grant them whatever motivation they are seeking for. His obligations to the sites...

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Throwing Off

Philip Ebuluofor

He sat in the corner of the computer house typing away, totally lost in his work. He had been coming to the same cafe to browse and do other paper works for weeks now without any success with those he had been communicating with. The work he has done for them, they kept rejecting saying it's not up to their standard. The problem is that they don't know what they want. Their instructions are confusing. He has amended all they said, but, in a few hours time, he will know what fault they will see again. There is always one with those groups. Th...

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Mr. Wythe

Philip Ebuluofor

   He had been at it for years but the thing is that he gives over respect to most things of this life. Maybe, you can best describe him as a ritualistic in nature. He will set the long and short stool in a format that they will form one longer one, then placed the rubber higher chair in front of him, placed a makeshift carton that serves as table surface and proceeds to wipe all clean with a clean rag before embarking on yet another placement ritual. The back balcony of their family house with the attendant noise that surroun...

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