Tolayo Ojo

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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“My best friend, Ted” by Tolayo Ojo

Submitted to Contest #99

Hope. That is what I felt as I watched the sunrise. It wasn’t a lot and sometimes it was barely enough to keep me going, but it was enough to keep the fear of the inevitable at bay. I enjoyed the sunrise and looked forward to it every day. Staying up until the crack of dawn and steadying my breath as I watched the sunlight fill the sky was routine. It promised you a new day full of trivial excitements and endless possibilities. Watching the sunset was completely different. It was like watching all the newfound hope diminish as the air turned...

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“Lucky Number 7” by Tolayo Ojo

Submitted to Contest #98

Dear Diary Journal. My name is Darius and I am incredibly and irrevocably unlucky. I can’t even deny it anymore. At this point it is just a fact. I don’t even know how it happened. Maybe it was the ladder I walked under, or the umbrella I opened inside. Or quite possibly the evil witch who cursed me to 7 years of bad luck. How ironic. Whatever it was, it was most certainly not my black cat. My black cat who I would never get rid of. My anti-Snow White, feline of the night, Garfield of a cat. My Precious Pookie. She meow...

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“Fates' Bane” by Tolayo Ojo

Submitted to Contest #98

Everything was dark. Flashes of memory ran through my mind as I walked through the ill-lit forest, not bothering to dodge the mass of trees and branches, I had no destination in mind. I was dizzy and disoriented. Despite the darkness, I could see everything clearly. It was like night vision, but more natural. I reached a clearing. The moon shone aloft and in the middle of it was a tree stump. There was something eerie about this location. The tree stump had been the only one cut down and I had an uncanny feeling that it had been done many mo...

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Author bio

I like writing and baking. I'm currently writing a book that I hope to see published one day. My dream is to become a novelist and to upgrade my small online bakery into a bigger physical one.