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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Early Morning Hustlers

Philip Ebuluofor

“Thinking that way won't lead anywhere. The earlier he knows that, the better for all” “How does he suppose to think that will lead to somewhere?” “ What’s the matter?- are you for his good or are you playing games?” “ Games are for the losers. Do I look like one to you?” “ How do losers look?” “ They look like my uncle we are talking about. That is what few I know look like. Isn’t that funny?- how those guys looks alike? Cash crop dealers” “ No, it’s not funny. What I sounds funny since talking with you is your attitude toward helping your ...

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Mighty Education In The Heart Of Guangzhou Spring Season

Philip Ebuluofor

“You have to show me the shop you are talking about. I have never been to that area before” “You will not miss it. Just tell the taxi driver or cyclist where you are going and they will stop you in front of the market” “So, there is a market behind that gigantic building?” “For sure, big one. I never knew until that my Chinese friend took me there two weeks ago” “They sell all manners of beauty products and all those love products like flowers you are after” My friend Uche has this way of talking that makes you to laugh most of the time....

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The Village Book fair

Philip Ebuluofor

“Do you hear that? According to the record, there are about one billion books in existence in the world”  “ Who was keeping the record?” “How do you mean who is keeping the records?- don’t you believe it?” “my question is simple. Who is recording all these books in existence, are these ones included?” “White people keep records you know?” “ No one is white people and no organization is white people. Which organization or someone keeping the records?” “Well, I have forgotten the name of the company mentioned and their web address. T...

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Mutiny Spirit Rewarded

Philip Ebuluofor

It was so terribly cold, snow was falling and it was almost dark. And the inmates have not eaten their evening meal and officer sheng was working them to the bones against regulations. It’s against regulation to jump queue in Lanty international prison. But nowadays, rules and regulations seems to have gone with the wind which is never in short supply in the semi dessert that the prison was built on. The district officers and the central management seems to have became helpless with their shortcomings that it is showing clearly on their la...

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Just To Be Sure

Philip Ebuluofor

“So, what is the catch?” “Why did you always worry about the negative in everything?- start first and when you cruise past the catch, you will not realize” “ It is always intelligent to know what one is getting himself/herself into. It is called wisdom or looking after one’s ground. It never hurts to know one’s enemy from day one” “ Yeah, I understand where you are coming from but this has become part and parcel of your entire way of living. Do you know this is the third time you have asked the same question today alone?” “That shows I must ...

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Foreigners In Foreign Land

Philip Ebuluofor

“I suspect that most are not just ordinary cats i mean, this one is over fat, over overfed, over strong, over cat. You need to see it in action” “ How can cat be strong enough to chase two three years old dogs away?- I don’t believe you. This is the exactly exaggeration” “ Exaggera… what?- I am telling you what I witnessed firsthand and you are doubting?” “ I heard that the cat is big from Anthony but the part about chasing two dogs and people away, this is my first time of hearing that part” “ Oh! I see. You believe Anthony's part without d...

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State Of The Nation

Philip Ebuluofor

“How do you mean by that?” “Not how do I mean, never me?. I tell you what they said is the route they are on now in this madness” “But why are people so dumb to this extent, even if you are a kid, you can tell A from B in the situation of this nature?” “Who will be the one hearing that your A from B eh? Do you think those saying that nonsense and those hearing them don’t know that all are bullshit?- they all know but knowing doesn’t favor them or able to put food on their table in the manner they have been corrupted since this guy came o...

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When Reality Is Just The Opposite

Philip Ebuluofor

Self-respect is what most people don’t have and don’t know how to acquire looking at things and events these days. Nothing beats self-confidence in most people's opinion. That is the route, the key to many locked doors and even open ones. But many think that the route is turning oneself into a rich man's dog that kowtows nonstop to influential people. Why some don’t even know that those influential people, most have grounded wisdom while others are just baboons, floaters. That is what Mrs. Aaron never knew. Maybe according to some, pretend...

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Capital Connection Cold War In Texas

Philip Ebuluofor

“Houston, we have a problem. Houston, Houston, this is Waterloo calling. Is someone there? Over.” That rant, is a kind of jingle in its own right especially to kids born before the ‘70s in Houston and Waterloo Texas and today, all over US. It became so popular that every kid of ‘60s the in Texas knows how to recite it with accuracy and rhythm that beats the hick out of Christmas carols and jingles there. “Houston, Houston this is Waterloo calling, over” It was the era of fieldwork with the enormous benefits that comes from it then....

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Bumpy Ways Of Wisdom

Philip Ebuluofor

Cultures differs really. There’s no doubt about that. But, what had been surprising to Lucas is why and how people of the same tribe, same town, same village, the same kindred, geographical up bring will differ greatly in belief and behavior like Cliff and Samuel do to the level of perennial squabbles both exhibit over ideology and well-known facts.  Where both of them came from and even how their parents and kindred handle certain issues like engagement with others are how many in their tribe does it. Yet, Samuel had been living by w...

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Internet Espionage

Philip Ebuluofor

“It happened again, I am not crazy, not paranoid as some are suggesting. These people are violating my privacy. This justifies my suspicion”  “But how are you sure they are monitoring you and for what?” hey, they alone can answer correctly that question. I am not sure that these creatures are what we take them to be” That was Tony talking to his friend Mark. He just told him about how his privacy is being violated not by the illiterate locals but by foreigners who are supposed to know better judging from what they claimed to be and wh...

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The Village He-Goats

Philip Ebuluofor

It is becoming a regular trend in the Biafra land these days. Regular in the sense that it had been existing since organized living but it was rare. This time around, it is turning out to be common practice. A man married a woman and they don’t have an issue and the man died, the woman if she don’t consider any man, many of the He-goats walking around as men in the village worthy to see her nakedness, or that she is too religious to engaged in bearing kids that isn't of the man she married, she will gather a few of her kindred, intimate th...

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Creating Your Own Luck

Philip Ebuluofor

That is how it is. Whenever it’s the new year, people always hustle here and there, rushing like Russians only to retreat later with excuses and wreak of the highest order behind them. Why do people always work themselves into anxiety and stress every end of the year and first two weeks of the new year as if those two months are something special to compare to the other months? Gabriel Okolo knew that those two months are months the court and the police make their own money from those rushing after the money. Officers rush after those rush...

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Meeting The Deadline

Philip Ebuluofor

For two years now, John had been following tradition, fashion and all the other johns to embark in a new year resolutions because to him, that is how it is done by many and since he is one of those many he joined in the ritual of the resolution setting each new year. For that two years, he had failed himself or rather crossed out each item in his lengthy list he had no intention of seeing through from Day one and assured himself that it was how many does it. They betray the list not themselves. Many. Why he always add his name to that ‘man...

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I Became Part If The Noise

Philip Ebuluofor

I have a little personal story to tell you about the unwritten convention or is it the constitution of my family I believe will interest you?  You see, I have nine sisters. Before I travelled abroad, only two have gotten married and the two are the type that either felt so relaxed at their husband’s house or the type that is not all that relaxed so felt like she needs to keep close eyes on the Hawks parading as mother-in-law, sister-in-law and concerned neighbors. So, to come and stay overnight in their father’s house was out of the e...

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