#unedited Entry Two (B) Dear reader, you can not begin to imagine the state I was in when I saw Sumayyah smiling at me. My mind was racing with questions: What is she doing here? Why does she look like she just won a lottery? Why isn’t she turning the whole place upside down? The […]
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#unedited Entry Two (A) Today is the day and I’m spoiling for a fight! As planned Sisi Gengeto and Iya-ngba-life have joined me for the mission, but Mama de Mama is unavoidably absent. Although she will be missed, we will not allow Mama de Mama’s absence alter any of our plans. I want you to
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Hey there! If you’ve ever read my first web series: The Thorn in the Rose, then some of the characters that appear in this story might be familiar to you. I lifted the main character of this series- Mrs Badmus aka Iya Ile Ookan directly from the TTiTR. This is not a sequel to TTiTR
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I wish you were here. It’s been raining continually all day. I wonder… if you would snuggle up with me on the sofa, and listen to the wind blow. Just like old times. ….. Your mum was here today. She seemed happy but I could see in her eyes the pain she tried to hide.
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VISAGE. The night was dark and eerily silent. I walked in and glanced at the wall, my eyes gaping at the shape cast by the lamplight. The visage was scary: a man clutching a dripping knife. My heart ceased beating. I realised then, that my father had just murdered his wife. ……….. “Father?” He glanced
TO ERR IS HUMAN: Book Excerpt …Before Khaalid could blink, there was a huge explosion. A fist of orange flames, burst into the darkening sky, lighting it up. Thick, black smoke rose up and filled the air. Shards of glass and metal rained down, flying in all directions. Khaalid was flung violently backwards by
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CONTENT IS KING… Yes. Content is king…and Queen. Especially written content. Nowadays, writing is an essential skill to possess. Whether you are a business owner or not, to be able to create engaging content that your audience can relate to and make them take the action you want, you must be able to write.
Chapter Five MUSLIMAH II I hated Mondays. Not because it was the beginning of another hectic week but for the fact that I had to endure sitting through GNS 212. A boring philosophy course taught by an equally boring set of lecturers. Frankly, I didn’t care for Aristotle or the fallacy of hasty generalisation and
Turmoil- Chapter Four A’ISHA II The weekend was turning out to be the best I had ever experienced in my five-year marriage. Gaffar and I made the decision to take time away from our busy schedules and spend the whole Saturday together. No work-related stuff whatsoever – just us. To begin the day, we took
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Five Things to Do After You Finish your First Draft. It’s several weeks after you typed the first word in your manuscript, and you just finished writing the last words 😊followed by: ‘The End’. You are excited. Happy. Drained. Then you ask yourself: What now? Indeed what should a writer do after they finish writing their
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