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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Mouthy Officers And Inmates

Philip Ebuluofor

 Freedom in certain foreign prisons is subject to work, good manners( as defined by the officers), loving yourself and your neighbors as you love your mama. Funny, right? Yet that is the reality in Maduri prison. Built in 2013, one of the best in the world in terms of everything as the story goes. Building, it is up there with the best, food?- nearly there with the best, management? – nearly there with the best until you are picked on. The prison housed about one thousand plus inmates of which about three hundred were foreigners from...

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JUJU Portion Kingdom

Philip Ebuluofor

He is the latest noise in the region. His fame extends even beyond the region. To all Christians that hear his name, it signifies an avenger of some sort. I could not believe it the first time I saw him live. He looked like Jesus if the pictures of Christ aren't playing tricks on us.   Not big, not small, the weight equals the height. That is exactly what Reverend father Thomas is. Not big, not small. He had returned from Rome a year and life ago and was posted to the interior village where many were wondering if he will l...

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Waiting To Explode

Philip Ebuluofor

He had been sitting in the waiting room for about thirty minutes. The disrespect as he sees it is getting to him. Whatever the king might think of him or wherever he is grading him, he knows who he is and that is a lesson he is not going to sit there for anyone to re-educate him on no matter what the person thinks of himself or the position he is occupying. King or not. He sighed loudly as he got up to go. Just at that moment, the door opened and the king walked in. He smiled silently to himself and shake his head at a lesson he is yet t...

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Mrs. joy And Her Two Years Plan.

Philip Ebuluofor

  The change is always noticeable in Nkpor city more than in other cities. How the city will be graded by those who know the criteria cities are graded is surprising to Mrs. Joy Ubaka. The flat she lives with her husband of six months that had been taking her about an hour or lower to tidy up, for a week now, had been an hour plus to be able to make it look manageable clean and manageable is not her thing. In her book, It equals failure. The dry season comes with it's disadvantage she doesn’t like as a person. In a city ...

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The True Light

Philip Ebuluofor

Culture, is one of those things that hold people together, one of those things that differentiate people of diverse tribes and races. That is what many races have in common that none is trying to change by force. Bad ones die natural deaths.     It was the new yam festival in Umugbo autonomous community. Festival that rivals Christmas in mass returns each year in the community. The festival was meant to be the thanks-given to the God and deities of the community especially that of the harvest.  The King ...

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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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