This morning I was really hungry unlike yesterday when I didn’t eat till two in the afternoon. And even then, it was biscuit I ate. Coaster biscuit. I ate six of it, which is in real life, only twenty four pieces of biscuit, since it has reduced to four pieces in one pack. What ‘frugalistic’ … Continue reading Funny Story
The first ID card I ever had spelt my name wrongly. There was an extra Y, and the U and an A and the I were missing. My surname is Amurawaiye. A-M-U-R-A-W-A-I-Y-E. My name had been spelled Amrawiyye or something like that. I was in JS1. To worsen the matter, the names they had printed … Continue reading Relevance
By the afternoon I ran through our house shouting: “Armed robbers are in the next house!” we had already been robbed twice. Once in broad day light like that day, and the other time in the night. The first time had preceded the second time just like a movie. The first armed robbery attack had … Continue reading Like a Movie
I was angry, as I sipped my way out of the swamp. I was totally useless, unneeded. Even my own peers didn’t care that I was attempting suicide. Can you imagine? This anger, made me crawl faster though. It made me want to be done with life. This pain I was living.I suspected this was … Continue reading The Earthworm Story (2)
I was born to this earth, a worm. A brown spineless earth worm. And right from when I knew myself, I hated it. I hated that I was an earthworm. I even hated that I had to hate myself. It was perplexing. For a long time, I remember always asking God why he had to … Continue reading The Earthworm Story
The Journal: Things are not going very regularly around here for me. And I guess you think it’s a good thing since it definitely means something interesting is happening, but that’s not the case. Far from it. The sun still shines at the right time and lectures are still holding the way they have always … Continue reading The Psycho On My Wing
She woke up with a nasty hangover, her head hurt, yes of course it was supposed to hurt but then, she had a lot on her mind. Well, she had had a rough life so far as a fairy god mother. She had been a government god mother, and had hit gold when one of … Continue reading The Fairy God Mother
(The words of a proud man) I only read what I write, most people say that’s proud, but I don’t give a fuck. You know what I mean? One time, I dropped my friends laptop on the ground, it fell on the floor, the screen cracked, it broke, I mean, what the fuck happened, was … Continue reading Pride
I don’t like cockroaches, it’s not like I fear them or anything, it’s just that I don’t like them. Believe me I never saw it as a phobia, it was just the general dislike for the specie, I wasn’t a ‘speceist’ or whatever you would call it but I hated them. Never wanted to have … Continue reading The Cockroach Stitch
ACT ONE, SCENE ONE. The scene is a class room, the teacher is at the far left of the theologian or clergy man as the case may be. The class is filled with various motivational quotations like, no one knows everything but everyone knows something. The man in front of the children seems unconcerned and … Continue reading Short Lies
How hard can it be anyway, I think. Well, I do not have any choice really, I think I will die, but I’m not one to give up to Zombies. My heart is racing, as the zombies scratch and howl, it seems as if they can smell human blood and fear too. We closed all … Continue reading How Hard?
I knew I was going to die. I was hanging with my life but I did not want to die. No one just wants to die like that (and in the manner I found myself. A painful death.) I had to save myself from death, somehow, the way, I did not know. I was dying, … Continue reading Murder On The Line(2)
It was a cool evening, it was late. The time was past ten. I was studying for my next very important paper, and there was no light (electricity). I had decided to study till very late that night. I had enough reserves of candle to use. I was absorbed in the studying when I heard … Continue reading Murder On The Line(1)
J: Journalist. C: Cockroach J: so many kids are afraid of the likes of you, what’s your reaction to that C: well, from the distance your keeping from me, I wouldn’t say you are quite comfortable with me, I feel it’s a general thing, just that the older you get, the more skilled you get … Continue reading COCKROACH AND KIDS (An Interview)
You see, the whole concept is about, how you would react if this happened to you. You happen to be a normal guy, let’s say a programmer for instance, you get back from a stressful day at work, you pack the Benz in the garage and you pull your tie, your back aching. You happen … Continue reading MURDER (a guide for disposing dead bodies)