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No1 lonely street

Hey friends i am sorry school is not making me regular here. I would try my best to keep you updated weekly.

This story is written for me. Enjoy....

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You have heard of love at first sight? Yes, we were friends at first sight. At first, it was the easy going type conversation- the hellos and his. The line was drawn friends we were, yes, just friends- the usual first replies to friends asking "who is she?" "is she your girl friend?" We were just friends

Tessy is a petite looking creature. Her statue betrays her age. She is twenty- three but looks sixteen. Tessy and i have been 'besties' for five years now, one, two...five, yes, five years. She was like a mother and a sister. We shared evrything together, the hard times and the happy times. Did i just say everything? Oh no! We didn't share the same bed. I am the good boy type, the yes mummy and yes daddy type.

Everything went well until that moment, that moment when i fell in love with Tessy. Our conversations grew from the normal casual talks to intimate. I know we joked about it, I know she didnt feel the same way at first. But to me it was no joke. I had stumbled into my greatest fears- falling in love, not just with anyone but with my own best friend.

Sleepless nights and day dreams took over my soul. Thoughts of her overshadowed me. When i ate, she was at the table, when i walked she was by my side. She was everywhere i was. This feeling was killiing me.

I was going to tell her how I felt I thought to myself. "But she is older than you." "And so what?" I was conflicting within me.

I remember that day. How cold I was standing in front of her, trying to force the word out of my mouth. It never came forth- I swallowed it. I Was scared of the unknown. Her stare scared me. I scared me. I felt like disappearing into the tin air but the air was so tin for me to pass through. I left her presence colder than i had come.

Loneliness was all over me. I didn't feel like she was there anymore. She had called me that evening to tell me she felt the same way but that it wasn'nt going to work out. I have ended up ruining a friendship I had built for five years.

look through your window pane. I am that man across the street standing in confusion at NO1 LONELY STREET

A day before yesterday

last week i experienced my first writers block thank God am back sha. Oouch! I'm digressing enjoy this piece...

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It was thursday, a day before yesterday. She had been feeling funny and had been throwing up occasionally. She decided to go to a hospital for check up.

"Mrs Dare Lara."

The voice echoed through the hall. It was the doctor. Lara got up hastily from where she was sitting, put herself together and walked into the doctors office shuting the door behind her. "Good day doctor" she greeted. "Good day ma, please have a seat." She drew the seat from under the table and sat majestically.

Silence hung in the room for some seconds. Lara's eyes rolled round the doctors office as her finger clicked on the table. Finally, the doctor broke the silence. "Mrs Dare, congrats, you are a week pregnant." Lara could not curtail the joy that filled her heart. She was speechless and motionless for some moment and then tears began to roll down her cheek- tears of joy. After years of barreness. God had finaly answered her prayers.

She remembered those moments when her mother-in-law would visit them and call her a witch who wanted to ruin her son's life. She remembered the molestations she had had to face from Dare's relations. Oh her Dare, he had alway been there for her. He loved her so much as though they were still dating

"God's time is the best." So he had told her that night. That night when she kept awake and cried her eyes out "God's time?" "when would that time come, is it when i'm fifty?" "stop that" he rebuked. "Dont give up so soon dear God can still do it for you. He has done it for so many people just wait for His time." his comforting words were soft but sharp to the piercing of the soul. It relieved her of her pains.

"Mrs Dare, is there a problem?" she jerked back to the reality before her " Oh no doctor, thank you very much." She rose from her seat, wiped her face, thanked the doctor and made for the door. As she opened the door, the doctor called out to her. She halted almost immediately turned to the doctor as if expecting to hear the worst. "Congrats once again" he said, letting out a smile. She smiled back at him thanked him once again and bade him goodbye.

As she rode back home in her lexus jeep, she remembered all that had happened in the hospital. So finally i am going to be a mother, she thought to herself. The radiance on her face could illuminate the night. I am not going to tell Dare immediately he comes back home. I will tell him after dinner,yes, I will make it a surprise she thought.

It was 7:00pm. The bell rang, she rushed to the door. It was Dare, he was home he kissed her forehead as she collected his bag and walked him upstairs. "How was work today" she asked. "As tiring as ever" he replied." " what did you prepare for me today? Am fermished" he asked as he kicked his shoe to the other end of the room and was now struggling to undo his tie. "I prepared your favourite. Change your clothe and come over to the dining table , I will be waiting..."

'pounded yam' and 'egusi soup' is Dare's favourite. Lara knew him with that even while they were in school.

In about ten minutes, he was at the table. They talked about everything and about nothing in particular while they ate. They were almost rounding up their meal and she decided to let the cat out of the bag. "Dear, there is something I want to tell you." He stoped his meal and told her to give him some minutes to ease himself and then he dashed straight into the rest room.

He was still at the rest room when a message entered his phone. Lara ignored it at first but later decided to check it out. She clicked on the 'new message' icon displaying on the screen and it read.

"Hello dear, I was at the hospital today and was confirmed pregnant. I am carrying your baby." Lara's heart stoped for some seconds. Her breathing was begining to rise. Scream began to well up from within her, finaly, she let it out, screamed his name and then fainted.

peace,peace be still!

Have you ever been in a situation where it seems you are caught in a raging tempest in the middle of the sea? What did you do? Fold your arms and drown...

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You are now in the middle of the sea, rowing to the other side- the other end of the sea, where all your dreams lay accomplished.

You rowed safely until now.

The sky is suddenly over-shadowed with darkness, the tempest is raging, the billows are tossing high. You turn round and round in confusion. Your heart now fails you. Your seemingly accomplished dream now look but doom.

There is thundering. The howl of wind threatens to take your boat to the under-side. Your hopes are shattered,shattered into a million starry pieces. You shout for help, no help is nigh. The storm is calming, but you know better that with every calm came another storm greater and mightier than the former threatening to blow you off into the storm tossed sea.

You sigh, you cry, you scream. But it seems your angels aren't hearing you.

The heavens open up some more and there was more rain- the tear drops of heaven. The roll of thunder is heard even louder.

"Carest not thou that i perish?" you cry. Then a still voice followed. "You of little faith, why are you so afraid?"

(The chorus of James Clevens hymn 'peace be still' is reeled to you in words)

"The winds and the waves shall obey my will, peace be still"
Wether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea,
or demons or men or whatever it be,
no water can swallow the ship were lies
The master of ocean and earth and skies.
They all shall sweetly obey my will
peace be still! Peace be still!
They all shall sweetly obey my will
peace, peace be still!

And then there was calm. The storm is over and your boat sweetly rest. You head for the harbour- to the land of your dreams.

Whenever you are faced with the raging storm (challenges). Forget not He is with you always. Remember to say the masters command peace, peace be still

Horrendous

He followed behind her and hid behind the trees in the forest at intervals, watching at distance where she was heading to. She wore a black hood gown that flowed down to the ground and followed behind her as she walked. She is the tall model type.

Suddenly, he saw her walk into a hall; it was dimly lit, he couldn't tell what transpired in there. He walked towards the hall, pushed down the door handle gently and opened the door as if in slow motion. The door creaked. He walked in stealthily. The dimly lit room went dark, deep darkness drowned him, she wasn't visible anymore.

The conga played softly and slowly

he began to hear strange voices from the four corners of the hall; very scary voices. His heart-beat accelerated. He turned round at every direction the voices came from

Now the voices were close, yes very close, he couldn' t see them but he knew they were there. He moved towards the open door and ran into the dark street. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him.

The conga crescendoed.

The creatures followed behind him. They chased violently. He became weary falling and rising as he ran. The creatures caught up with him. He could feel their gropping claws scarring him. Just as they raised their claws to tear him apart.

The conga stoped.

He sat up straight on his bed breathing profusely just to find out he had been dreaming

A rainy day to remember

The weather broke. Darkness crept up the sky like a flood, submerging the earth, causing the sun to hibernate into the clouds.

Su's steps became pacy, but no matter how fast she was going to walk now she knew one thing for sure; she was going to b drenched in this rain. She walked so fast as if not wanting her legs to touch the ground before taking the next step.

Suddenly, a mighty wind swept past her, First, it blew at one direction producing a whistling and sighing sound and then haphazardly, causing nearby roofs to rumble. The wind blew so hard that it set pieces of wood to motion. Trees were being swayed from left to right and at other times due to the magnitude of the wind, they were set at angle forty-five to the ground

A crack of light tore through the heavens producing tributaries. The illumination was followed by an emphatic and distant crash. Su hated this sound, it frayed her nerves. She put her hands over her ears until the sound fizzled out. The lightening and thundering continued a few more times and then it rained... Such rain. It didn't border to resolve into drops but poured out of the heavens as a continious flowing stream. Su was soaked from the scarf on her head to the slippers on her foot.

Just as she was about looking for shelter to escape the ire of the rain, a car parked in front of her. The owner called out to her. She jumped into the car not considering who it was. He is a tall, slim, handsome man in his late twenties, a kind that any would love to be with.

Now sitting in front of her mirrow looking gracefully at the engagement ring on her finger, she is not regreting that rainy day. A rain that had brought sunshine to her life.

Enslaved (pidgin version)

Which kain life be this, them born me come this world to suffer? Even the people wey kill jesus sef, God no punish them like this. Hin still have mercy on them.

See as my madam dey treat me, as if i no be human being even their dog (terry) dey mock me. Na so the other day hin enter my roon, carry my clothe from my leather bag go shit ontop, and when i beat am, na so my madam comot dey shout "you wan kill my dog? Useless boy. that witch wey u chop from your village e no fit do me anything. Idiot" as she dey talk, she use her high heel shoe dey hit me for head.

And just this morning as my madam go work, her pikin, samuel, wey i dey call my small oga bring one small girl come house. This girl, i sure say she never reach eighteen years. As i open door i greet my small oga "welcome sir," i no bother to greet hin guest because i feel say na she surpose greet me. I close door to go back go continue with the plate wey i bin dey wash. As i waka pass my small oga, hin call me back com ask me wether i no see hin guest. I tell am say i see her. Hin com ask me why i know greet her, before i go open my mouth answer hin sound me one better slap. I bin dey hear say them dey slap people them dey see star i no belive am until today.

Suwaiba, sam elder sister run commot from her room to come see wetin they happen. She ask her brother why him slap me, na so the guy push her for ground oh. Anti su as i dey call her and my small oga start fight. E no tey, madam enter house come see me wey i dey try seperate fight oh. She come say I wan kill her pikin, she remove her high heel shoe hit me for head na so i come collapse. She no even bother carry me go hospital. Thank God for anti su wey carry me come this hospital i for don die

Now wey i don dey well small small sure say i no go run before my madam come back for me? Abi make i still endure this witch woman? I just dey confused now. This life sef, I tire oh!