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Esther OnumonuBecca KayJinger Stories 04-07

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  • The Nigerian dream
  • Childhood again
  • Dark night of the soul
  • What Can I Do For You
  • The Nigerian dream

    That's the thing about this city, it sucks you in, turning you into a mere flavor, an ingredient, just another addition to the city. You become Mama Kachi, the woman who bakes bean cakes down the road, or Aisha, the girl who braids hair, or simply Big Ben, the man who lives next door. No one wants to know what your favorite color is or what your mama always says or even what your dreams were, what you wanted to be when you grow up. You lose your inpiduality, that thing that made you unique back when you lived in the countryside; the fact that you were always good with calculations, your wonder...vXeone door

    Childhood again

    NowIt comes to her easily. She would usually see revenge as unnecessary. The best revenge is a good life lived, so they say, but this time her anger is so fierce, so close to her mind that she has to do something direct. There is no hurry. She can call on her anger whenever she wants. All she has to do is let herself live the memory of what happened. BeforeBy four years old she could read. She was a smart and chubby kid. She was loving as well. Famously her family didn't like physical contact, or any show of emotion but she hugged everyone and they all found it so charming that she was natural...vXeone door

    Dark night of the soul

    The dark night of the soul..what is that. Something stupid obviously something fake. I’ve never know someone who’s gone through that? Have I...oh no...pacing, cold under the weather they say. No something else...something different. It’s like who I was does not exists and who I will be hasn’t been created so where do I land? Where am I..who am I? Pieces of me start to fall off. Purging and aching my body is in flames. It hurts so bad I can’t feel anything. Ripping me piece by piece. Section by section psychically, energetically mentally and emotionally. Tell me when does this end. It’s like th...vXeone door

    What Can I Do For You

    What Can I Do For You“What is this?”“What does it look like?”It looks like a note, because, it is a note, written on what looks to be the back of an advertisement proclaiming the double decker to be the jwww.onedoor.ccuiciest burger ever, “Subliminal.”I look from the paper into his steely black eyes, bulbous face, and habitually worn stocking cap, adorned with the remnants of dead leaves. I am not a believer in fate, destiny, or really any insinuation that infers a Deja vu fog covers any situation in life, but I was considering changing my mind. The third time in a month, and Jamal is standing before me, tr...vXeone door

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