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Last Round Review

Below is the final judge’s review of the Top 5 contest entries.

In judging the winner of this competition, I was looking for the following:

- Did it have a flowing, distinctive style?

- Was I convinced that the contestant had really been moved [...]

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Out of the Blue 5

“All Right, Zed, It’s A Deal.”

It was tough preparing for her exams over the next few days, what with Zed constantly on her mind. Taffy told herself time and again that his “proposal” - if it could be so called - had been [...]

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Bloodied hands...

I have always wondered what it would be like to have blood on my hands.

I don’t have to wonder anymore; now I know.

There is so much blood on my hands that when I walk to the market place I hide my hands [...]

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New Beginings: the End

Banke sat up on her bed suddenly.

She was tucked in with her favorite Stephen King piece and something in the plot, got her thinking. It had been 5 months since Femi waltzed back into her life and stole her [...]

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MY DIARY.

26th July,2010.

Today I was simply my ”best”.woke up by 4.00am to the shock of everyone(that’s usually when the real sleep start).I led in morning prayers,ran the bath for my little boys and made breakfast,yes I made breakfast.Fixed my self and went to school.Today [...]

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Sullen Belle

This is a poem about a man that cannot perform. Hope you’ll flow with the rhyme [...]

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Entangled

Silent yet speaking volumes

Far away yet caught in his mesh

A mesh spun from words unspoken yet felt

Ropes so loose yet tightly bond

Riveting stares, yet unseeing eyes

Limbs so nimble yet sluggishly moving

Entangled in his web, that’s where I am

[...]

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Watering hole

All eyes converge on the muddy watering hole in the centre of the plain- zebras, gazelles, nagging bucks and the Hyenas. Ahead, the light of the sun diffuses through obstructing clouds bathing the landscape in warm sunlight denying the earth of the fury [...]

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TRUE LOVING STORY

LOVE AND LIFE
The hearty thoughts of all hearts
Seeking the pleasures life offers
Daily working and following paths
Seeking the solutions hoping facts

Love and life is a real story
But the game played by all
As [...]

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Final Scores - Last Round Shortlist

So after much combinations and permutations, we have arrived at the Final Shortlist for the last round - drumroll please - as follows;

1. Blazing Embers by Aizehi
2. The Hunter and the Reincarnated Goddess by RemiRoy
3. The Death of I [...]

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Angels among us

In a world stained by darkness The angel descends to rest, Then sets a-float mid-air once more. As a footstep is to the sand, he leaves a print etched deep within the palm of your hand- all the while, dropping traces of gentle winds [...]

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IF WORDS COULD FREEZE...

Igbo men have this funny fetish with their women marrying from their kind.

If possible, the woman has to marry a man from her hometown; in fact, from the exact village she is from. Tell an Igbo man that your name is Mrs. Ifeoma [...]

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GEEBEE'S TRIP. EPISODE 1 - GOING CRAZY

The year is 2003, the year in which I would turn eighteen and one in which everything seems to be going awry in my life. I had been out of secondary school for almost two years and the end to the struggle to get [...]

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Ibukun: Memoirs of Ablackjamesbond

My problem with Ibukun started when I was made class captain. He made it clear to everyone who cared to listen that I didn’t deserve to be captain and my being captain was because the class teacher liked me. He was probably right.  He [...]

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The Right Girl

FADE IN:

EXT. road - eVENING

CHIOMA is seen talking to a phone booth operator. Chioma is a girl of about 20. She looks simple yet beautiful. She gets the information from the call operator and moves ahead.

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