Short Story: REWARD

Kofi was nothing like a gentleman but for the sake of things he had to pretend as one. He was to be a teacher, a profession he was in because his grades somewhat did not qualify him to go to the university like most of his friends. He had no love for the profession, his mother had suggested it to him! He graduated by strictly the mercies of God. When he finished, he had one hope and that was to be posted to an all girls school. He had heard...

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Short Story: HEALING

He tried to, first, love her, second, compare her to his favourite character in a novel he remembers half the lines and lastly, he tried to make her his all. But he failed. The afternoon he first saw her, he became restless, the afternoon she left, he became restless. The very first day he saw her, he was with two lusting young fellows who were shouting false sexual escapades. “Oh! That girl? Lef am koraa. I chop her last year koraa ooo....

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Death (co-written by Doyselle)

Death doesn’t come when you expect it Not when you need it desperately Or when you wait earnestly for it I saw death pass by my window But it wouldn’t come to me Not even when I taunted it Death comes when you least expect it It creeps upon you in the afternoon breeze When the sky is brightest and the birds cheeriest It arrives at the dawn of the New Year’s Eve Just when you step into the kitchen for a glass of water It swamps up on you in the...

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