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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Before You Act, Remember Samson

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #172

Deaths due to cult activities are on the increase a lot not only in schools but in the streets and marketplaces in Ukpoi autonomous community these days. Various cult groups run after recruits as the military runs after recruits to beef up their depleting ranks during the war. They seem to have made that town their headquarters. They had thought it was a fashion that will soon wear off with young males but they were wrong and when they realized it, it was too late. Young females and older peo...

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Words And Images

Philip Ebuluofor

Free and easy are words that just exist in his dictionary nowadays but he never use them as far as his memory could recall. To think that he, Billy trust that his brain well more any other organ in his body is stating the obvious. At 36, he have learnt how to trust his memory not his eyes. He can recall accurately from the age of six to date how many times his memory have saved him and helped him out of many quagmires he found himself and how many times his eyes have deceived and betrayed him. Not ev...

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Detailed Planning

Philip Ebuluofor

“ I have got a plan” Sunday announced to his teeth picking buddy while gleaning from ear to ear. “ What is it?” His friend asked a rat- like a man that has this annoying habit of picking his teeth even when he drinks water. Sunday eyed him and eyed the toothpick, sighed and shake his head. “What is your problem?” Why that stick in your hand as if you are in perennial banquet or something” “Just forget this stick and let me hear your plan” “ At times, I wonder if I am not dealing with the wrong guy. A bad habit like that is damn giv...

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Poor Wild Cat

Philip Ebuluofor

At her age, you will think it is the age of awareness. But not Rosa. At 12, she is not about to start taking risks that might take a few seconds to accumulate and months and money to do away with. She eyed the black cat that just emerged from the left side of the underbrushes heading towards the right with trepidation. She turned around and walked back about 20 percent of the route she had come, holding a book borrowed from a classmate two days ago. After mustering courage and repeating to herself aloud to the chagrin of a home-going mid...

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Two Days Journey Into East

Philip Ebuluofor

Mumude sighed gravely as he continued to put his things together as he continued to put the final touches to his preparation for his visit to the east to see his daughter and family, the second of such trip this year alone. He could not just understand what it is with the children of these days. Their brand of love is entirely different from his generation. “Love for goodness sake is what develops as you come to know each other well” he spoke out loud only to realize that he was speaking out his thoughts and that brought more heavy sighs...

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The Truth Commission

Philip Ebuluofor

He jerked awake and the laughter coming from about twenty different voices made him realize that he had been in that image land for long as usual. He sighed loudly as he sat on the edge of his bed pondering the best way forward. Nowadays, he had been turned into a kind of central TV for many, people he can not in honesty voucher for their humanness anymore. He went down memory lane and recalled that the first time he witnessed the out the body incident was in the camp of the man-of-order group ...

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Pastor Jame's House Calls

Philip Ebuluofor

“On that regards, I quit. I can not just stand this demeaning allegations anymore. Why explain myself over and over again. I still stand by my words” “What we are saying is that things has ways they are done. You can't just quit like that without settling the law aspect of the case first. The church will bear the brunt if you do” “How do you mean?- are you implying that I should sacrifice my health, name and freedom for the church” “Church?- ha! pastor James, it is not just church but God’s house. We are interested in seeing this allege...

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Willing Attachments

Philip Ebuluofor

Funny how things and people entangles just by similarities in name. In Africa, we have such an entanglement stories and funnier thing is that many modern and educated busy people is buying such bullshit tales with unceasing hopes even faith. In my tribe in eastern part of Nigeria, there is one and half millions of such stories flying everywhere these days with ardent apostles spreading it like craze. A kindred, or village in a town bearing the same name with one known town about three hours by car away from themselves and many from bot...

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A Trip Down Memory Lane

Philip Ebuluofor

He couldn’t believe it. This is the fourth time he was sending a list with the item in it and each time, other things in the list will be bought except that one item. He sighed loudly while perusing the items and the letter handed over to him by the master in charge. “ what is wrong with these people, don’t they want to buy the thing or what?” We chuckled at this obvious anger. It has become a kind of norm to laugh at anyone because any item on the list he sent home was not bought by his parents. “ Maybe it is because you kept gett...

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Wisdom: Ancient And Modern

Philip Ebuluofor

Money is a force far stronger than any force known to man. To think that humans of every social standing always believed that they are in control of it and not the other way around is funny once you spare a little time to recall any history even as far as first century or the last decade, you will know why? The force that cut across any race, continent, class while wrecking the same havoc on all, you will begin to understand how powerful this force called money is. Another funny thing is that, it is not a racist, not respected of complex...

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Over Mesmerized

Philip Ebuluofor

“ All these ones with vegetables, are they like this truly or is it just pictures?” “ Everything in that menu is exactly as they were in real life. Just order and see for yourself” “ With amount of the vegetables in it, the price most be something else” “ That number you saw with RMB behind it is the price for each plate” “Are you sure? Even with a chicken laps as big as this?” “ Why not order and see them life. You are still watching pictures” Mr. Johnson and his guest at the air port restaurant. Mr. Joe his guest had just arrive from N...

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Unknown Messenger

Philip Ebuluofor

I woke up around 2:30 am in a foul mood. I wasn't even aware of the time, I had thought it was 5 am till I eyed the bedside clock. There wasn't a struggle of any kind in that dream, nothing like sweat, screaming, or a sign of any struggle. Just the kind of dream that leaves one annoyed with things and people around him. The kind that takes one by force down memory lane. What the trigger for heading that lane in a dream instead of physical was, I don’t know. Nothing in my physical warranted such at le...

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Acute Shortages

Philip Ebuluofor

I wasn’t actually used to such sight. I wasn’t living with my family when they moved back to the city after the civil war. I was sent to live with another family based In another town when they rejoined my dad in the city. In the village when I began to notice things, we had a big concrete water tank that serve us well into another rainy season during dry seasons. The knowledge I had from fetching water from the stream during dry season is scant but I can distantly recall being there one morning with my mother and siblings. I ...

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Society Full Of Obtainers

Philip Ebuluofor

Submitted to Contest #159

Arithmetic? – Ah, I am not good in that at all. When it comes to measuring distance, I found it too difficult to do. Most of the times, when am stuck in the issue while talking to someone, I try to measure in my head the distance between two electric poles and what I wanted to say. “Emm, about two or three electric poles” That is always my answer to distance questions. That’s if am talking to close acquaintances. But if the person doesn’t fall into the category of a friend or acquaintance, I will supply gues...

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Shortages Of Common Sense

Philip Ebuluofor

I have seen a lot of dubious characters in my life. I don’t even know if dubious would be the appropriate word in describe the character my neighbor Mr. lucky had been exhibiting for close to three years now. I have no doubt that the man has attitude and moral problems. Why wouldn’t he? – people without scruples always have attitudes and moral problems. I really don’t know Mr. lucky that much for I had been away from this my community for long. When I was here, he wasn’t living here. Just like most of th...

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