Temitope Ajao

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Anastasia” by Temitope Ajao

Submitted to Contest #211

My birth was an oddity, at least that’s how they told it.Tireless and prodigious, I was born a month earlier than what my parents had expected. “It’s all part of the Lord’s plans sister Maria. Yunno He works in mysterious ways” the pastor’s words, part religious, part anesthetic, reduced Mother’s tendency for paranoia. But science had no need for verbal tongue twisters, the doctor warned that I might not make it; too “weak”, too “feeble”, too “frail.” Mother paid her no mind, and with a tight grip in screams of blood, she brought me to the l...

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“Knot Theory” by Temitope Ajao

Submitted to Contest #202

To form a knot, you take a string and let it twist into various configurations. Each twist and turn gives birth to a new design, that is a knot. And as a mathematician, I do research on these knots and their interesting structure. I have acquired a taste of the general view of things through my work. But the soul of any particular thing, is of course, in the details. How a tree fuses its limbs and binds them together. These are the souls of things, and this way my experience with a mystical Aurora.My experience of childhood loss had made me ...

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Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco.