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1 CONTINUATION The sound of the car horn alerted me. I stood up and ran to the window. In view was a Toyota; exactly what I expected to see; Slim’s dad’s car ‘Muna’ I yelled walking away from the window. ‘Munachi Nzeribe’ I yelled louder. She ran downstairs with her sandals in her hands. An angry look plastered on her face ‘What is it’ she snapped; walking up to me. I pointed to the window as I sat down to wear my black flats. ‘Oh…. They’re here.’ I nodded in agreements concentrating on my shoe ‘Go keep them company. I’m coming outside to meet you when I’m done with my make up’ I looked at her and scoffed. ‘I’m not going anywhere without you. I don’t like your lanky boyfriend and you know that’ I said in a mocking voice. Muna turned and looked at me ‘Yeah yeah you hate his guts’ ‘And his cockiness. And his face’ I interrupted getting up....

2 ‘Tonia’ someone echoed. ‘Antonia’ the echoing continued. I looked up and found myself in the middle of a palm kernel vegetation whose beginning or end I couldn’t determine ‘Antonia’ the echoing continued now more desperately than before. I stood up and began walking to the east side trying to locate the origin of the voice. I was lost; that was the obvious fact but I didn’t understand why, why was I lost? How did I get here? ‘Who are you’ I asked in a bold voice trying to hide my fear but there was no reply just the continuation of the echoing of my name. I turned round at a spot confused. The voice seemed to be coming from nowhere and everywhere ‘What do you want from me?’ I asked ‘Please let me know who you are’ I begged tears rolling down my eyes ‘I’m lost’ I continued. But there was no response; jut my name. finally the voice came to a halt. I stood at a position; totally conf...

INVADED 1 September 14th 2008 As Bridget removed her wedding ring and placed it on the dressing table; she cleaned the tears that were about to fall from her eyes. No matter the circumstance she wasn’t going to appear weak in front of her husband. She knew Odiong’s stock in trade was to prey on the weak; she had seen him with his employees. She heard the bathroom door open and observed her husband walk in with his silk towel round his waist ‘I thought you would be asleep by now’ Odiong said walking up to his wife and putting his arms on her shoulder ‘And I thought you would have moved to the guestroom by now but once again Odiong we disappoint each other’ she said with a stainless smile and walked away. Odiong sighed and raised his eyebrow up. not this night he wasn’t ready to pick up an argument with his wife. But Bridget seemed offended by her husband’s nonchalant attitude ‘Any woman Odiong’ she started, raising her voi...

I'm like a vampire with a silver heart Anticipating for a release In pain it beats fast In agony and in grieve So don't question when I choose to hate In love, it increases it's pace Untamed, I walk the state In a world where there is no stake I loved, I endured the days No retreat, I said no surrender With faith, I took the ache All for the death for all did falter So I walk ahead with my back Because I can't face the pains in my past Thoughtless, no emotions, I need my peace Because like a vampire with a silver heart, I choose to be

Good day readers, I apologize for the long break, we had some things we need to sort out but we are back fully now. Have you ever heard of the story of Queen Elizabeth the second, they call her the kleptomaniac queen. Does it ring a bell? Queen Elizabeth II was married to George the V.  The English queen got it wrong, instead of loving people and using things, she used people and loved things. She had an emotional lurch of the heart and she hated to pay for anything she saw that she liked. On seeing, the queen simply converted. She would say “I am caressing it with my eyes” but it never stopped there. She was so covetous that she acquired jewels, furniture, Faberge animals, watches, and gold boxes by means of begging to extortion to outright theft. If she saw a piece of jewels she liked. She would hold it up and give it a hungry gaze with a wild smile. She would then indicate appreciating the object been given to her as a gesture or offer to buy it at a ridiculously cheap...

They say I'm a woman; I bend, I don't break But driving home this evening, I wish I could, life is no piece of cake I got married to Jake, beside a shallow lake, middle east Nigeria We had a three weeks honeymoon afterwards, in USA Virginia Everything seemed like a love song on rewind; no drama, no ache no promises left vague But then things started to change, six years now. Marriage has turned to a sea of hate Did I marry a fake. I'm I being forsaken for goodness sakes I can't last a decade help me. I can't wake everyday and take this ache They say for better for worse, in the day and at night we should hold each other In sickness, in health, in the storm in the rain we should stay together No one thinks of the pain, no one else hears the thunder. No one but me, no not one sees his blunders So I open the door, I see Jake sleeping in his own alcohol I look up for peace, love or help I see none at all I walk to him, pick his coat and adjust his head on ...

ADA NZERIBE 5:00PM, 15 APRIL 2014 BLOCK C, ROOM 26 No one really understands my life. Schooling in prestige would be one of the most confusing things about me. I am not a privileged child like the rest of the girls in my school. You see, walking the streets of prestige all you see are million dollar bills strolling to classes, the designers wristwatches, bags, tops, shirts, skirts and gowns, the expensive weaves, the designer lip sticks and eye brow fillers, the foreign accents and pin up attitudes and if cars were allowed within the school I wonder what will be expected from prestige student. I, Adaobi Nzeribe as a human lived and grew up in the belly of Lagos state in a two bedroom flat with my mother and my little sister, Uju. Life isn’t rehersal dinners or cocktail parties for me. Life is the hard struggle to put food on the table, see her fees paid and struggle to get paid for some pocket money for me. My mom got pregnant for me out of wedlock to a married man, that was ...