Rosheedat Akindele

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“The Border ” by Rosheedat Akindele

Submitted to Contest #63

By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire. Subhanallahi, I muttered silently as I rushed to the well which was close to my tent. Worse, the drawer's rope had loosened and there was no way I could draw water from the deep well. Except, of course, if I could climb down the steep and slippery ridges that paved the corners of the well rings which, so deep, seemed like a dark abyss. There had been scarcity of water in our locality. The water I had left was just a bowl which wouldn't extinguish the fire that had then started ravaging ...

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Rosheedat Akindele is a medical student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. She lives in Nigeria.