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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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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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Prophetess Eliza

Philip Ebuluofor

He found the house around 11:45 am. The afternoon sun has just started to emerge. But the woman isn't around according to the two women he saw in the compound there he took to be the prophetess helpers. They had asked him to tell them his problems but he wasn't in a hurry mood or about to allowed the apprentice to do his dignosis for him. He have seen a lot of such "Tell us your problems" kind since he got married five years ago and had been rolling around in every general and private cure houses without success. He is tired of pr...

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Harvest Season

Philip Ebuluofor

When I first went to Bamako, I didn't know the culture there differs greatly from what we have in Nigeria during the hot season. I was there not only for business reasons but to see this country players like Tigana came from. they never wanted to behave themselves for whatever reason they're killing themselves for were. It is actually my friend that deals in sugar and sugar products that put the idea of Bamako in my head. I mean, people I am better off by far are all getting Chinese and Dubai visas, why not me. But my friend has a bet...

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Two Cities Tale

Philip Ebuluofor

That was how I had viewed my village this past weekend. I went back there for village matters. I am not sure if it even qualified to be called that name anymore in the sense that colonial masters left those words to us a long time ago. Do the math yourself and see things from your own perspective. Villages in the sense the British left it for us isn't what we are witnessing here this century, things have inverted, inverted and still inverting. Checkout what I have been able to see without straining my eyes, or any part of me. They were all ...

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DIY

Philip Ebuluofor

He hear about it often but never really as it's with him always put it to work. Do it yourself is a jingle that rings out in his life almost every day. It's never in his character to do certain things he believes it's certain kind of people work to do. He guess that it's the over indulging upbring he passed through in the hands of his parents. If a mop breaks, it will never occur to him to look at it well and see how he can repair it, if any electronics stop working, it will not cross his mind to take a proper look at it and see what he can ...

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BK-s13

Philip Ebuluofor

My neighbor, Mad Anderson, they call him, but I am not sure that is even his real name. Where he came from, I don't know but he is one of those tinker workers that is turning those sectors into serious business. Those guys can't give your ears an iota of peace even on sundays. They hammer, chisel, scrape, file, wash and then paint to bring to life a deadpan of any shape. He is a dreamer, not only that he dreams walks at times, he makes time to sit and dream up, plot every kind of negativity that never enters into any ordinary man...

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