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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Running Mouth

Philip Ebuluofor

Cool countryside village of about a hundred families of which about 60% live in the city and only come back en mass during mass return holidays mainly New Yam festival and Christmas. No nonsense story of any kind was ever on in there, let alone dangerous one. Those mass return time always last for two or three weeks and everybody face the city again in preparation for school resumption. But the problem was in the offing this past Christmas for the city problem went home to the village with some people. Chinwe and his fellow heapers as those ...

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Under Pressure

Philip Ebuluofor

They are not mincing words. Mr. Samuel Ike foundout that out in a hard way. In fact, there are no much difference between chameleon, tiger and humans after staying only 45 minutes in this last minutes he finished with these people he had believed were in the same boat with him. He sat in his office, an 11 by 12 square room with table, chairs and books. Shelves of morden quality, quality books many came from abroad direct he is proud of and never hesitated in marketing to his friends and visitors but right now, this very moment, he wasn'...

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January Events

Philip Ebuluofor

 12th January 2024.  Wake up around 12:45 am, saw nothing, and heard nothing in the form of images, sounds, or dreams. That has become a kind of normality in my sleep these days. It's becoming a source of stress for me these days. I mean presence or lack of images. It's even look out for a thing these days. Yeah, I remember seeing something that I can't recall anything about anymore. I am not sure if it is even a dream (for I don't dream) or I suspect, one of those human-sent images that abound these days. I don't know whi...

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Firework interrupters

Philip Ebuluofor

Mr john Okeke, a Christian. That type that uses their earthly head to serve God. If you had been following events, You would easily have recalled that He is not the type that believes you need to be a little crazy to serve God well. Do you know the type? Crazy types that drink alcohol, commit not only fornication but adultery over and over then, suddenly, they turn into overnight saints and start throwing away things they considers sinful. With alcohol and things like that go with the bottle, the wife becomes more useless than she was...

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Yellow Bottles

Philip Ebuluofor

 He sat in his front porch, wrapped in a poor woven sweater that had weathered about two decades harmattan seasons with him mopping into distance. Half heartedness is how he had been tackling things he was involved in these days. Tired of breaking the resolutions he made in January in third week of February. It had been that way since he could recall. Time it changed for good no matter how subtle. Tire of hanging his hands to cover his shortcomings where they really not belong. Wisdom has many definitions, he is tired of defining it...

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Animal Kingdom

Philip Ebuluofor

"I suspect this country is one of those referred to as being in hell on earth"   "how do you mean?" "How can a naira be 1k for a dollar, it means if you get a thousand, it would be a million naira" He walked into my small room with a face that looked like what came out of his mouth and was lamenting on the state of the nation. How the president is the wrong guy on the sit    "don't you know who a baron is?"  "How do any one expect a baron to know how to run a nation? We are sinking badly and the...

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Loyal Royalty

Philip Ebuluofor

Her accent pointed to her root and Mr. Chima had little problem placing her. The dark brown mohagony table she sat behind it looked to him like the type you see in federal politicians' offices. Broad with files and computer taking the lion's share of it. The lady behind it is something else too. But he wasn't focusing on that although, he had a lot in his mind that needed settling. He became aware that they were seizing themselves up. Then her speech was that of admonition and reproach rather than seeing him as a victim. From the look of thi...

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Lintai Food Street

Philip Ebuluofor

His custom-made milk top and navy blue trousers were too quality and too shiny in comparison to the mass of cheap attires all around him. He had not been difficult to pick out in the mass of bodies all around him. Off-color in too many yellows, head, a foot taller. Mr. Anthony Moses, the new Canadian Ambassador to China is enjoying his food and never noticed the three other off-colors not far off his right at the opposite table across the road. They kept wondering what his obsession with cheap street food was in the heart of the Chinese capi...

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Noah's Day

Philip Ebuluofor

   The room is not all that spacy. The screen that was behind the lady of about twenty-four or five wearing what they call spaghetti attire that exposed all the lines that crisscrossed her shoulders. Her attire encountered what was coming out of her mouth. The meteorologist department seems to pay more attention to hiring beautiful girls and decorating their base with modern gadgets to hiring intelligent staffs was saying: "weather being freezing mad this evening, the trees are going to shake, and, leaves shiver. The air is go...

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Their Headache, Not Mine

Philip Ebuluofor

They had agreed before the wedding to do this celebration every two years and this year is the fourth time they would be hosting their kindred and family friends. Good it is always during the Christmas vacation period the anniversary falls on. Good to kill two birds with a stone. They, Mr. And Mrs. Johnson sat in their village parlor, a place not sophisticated in electronic gadgets way for no one is sure of security in that village. The tale going on in the village is leaning a lot on the negative side. They have spent three days now in the ...

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4hr, 36minutes Job

Philip Ebuluofor

They said, don’t swear till the temptation waves have passed you by and you are still standing. I used to sigh hard about anything that required proving my stands on issues, till two days ago in the comfort of my room, I quit sighing. One adage says that the eyes have to eat first before the mouth. I suspected all along that it must be an African adage for that is the kind that comes from here. Western and Asian chefs to my surprise were always males specializing in the aesthetic part of food presentation in their TV programs. Like I sai...

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Gangering Dobbelganger

Philip Ebuluofor

I sighted the crowd from afar. The school gate is about two hundred meters away. I eyed my watch and it said 5:15 pm I was surprised and inquisitive about what would be causing the crowd at the school canteen. I increased my pace curious and eager to be part of whatever it is that is happening. Being part of any story is always interesting better than being told. The crowd was made up of students, the canteen keeper a woman of about forty-three. I was still about twenty feet from the crowd when I started hearing: "Why didn't you answer when ...

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Appointed Time

Philip Ebuluofor

There is nothing one can not achieve if he or she put their all in it. That statement is what many kept interpreting wrongly to fit their evil quest. That is why Mr. Jude can not understand some adults like his neighbor Mr. Frank and his way of reasoning. Why is it that some people find it difficult to learn how to mind their business? But it seems like the whole world is going nuts. People are getting crazier each passing day and how to prevent such behavior from turning into an epidemic is what Mr. Jude has found out through personal exp...

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Not All That Trifle

Philip Ebuluofor

He sat there mopping for about twenty minutes or more. He has found out that what he is going through is not unique to him alone for he has discussed it with some of his course mates and few of them acknowledged passing through such an experience too. He marvels at times at some phenomenon some people pass through without paying adequate attention to it. Is there anything like a readers block? at least he knows of writers but readers? Ha, he has not heard that one being discussed or written about anywhere. Yet, that is what he has noticed ...

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Test Runs

Philip Ebuluofor

They gathered at the same bar that he had known but never entered since his secondary school days. He recall passing that route daily thirty-two or three years ago while in secondary school far from there. Recall seeing frequent fracas there while passing there. Concluded then that the bar must be for unrefined creatures. Now, he is sitting inside the same bar as member of newly registered driving school student that opened beside that bar. The gathering is meant to be theoritical class but it sounds as if it was designed for a month a...

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