Month: January 2023
Love & Lies Episode 25
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ” Mami please, I have had enough. Just leave me to die. Everywhere we went, they said there is no solution to my problem. It has been five months now.” Lara cried. She had been complaining of stomach pain since the previous night. Both her mother and her couldn’t sleep. “No, I wont […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 24
TWENTY-FOUR Something tells her life is about to take its toll on her. It seems to brandish a cutlass in the air ready to cut out her flesh bit by bit or like whacking a cow whip in the air ready to smack her really hard. Tears welled up in her eyes. They formed thick […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 23
LOVE AND LIES TWENTY-THREE It was evening and the wind was already thrashing softly outside. Honks and gabble still whirring from a distance. The air was musky and the evening sun had a daub warmth. Lara stepped into the compound, dragging a heavy box along. She wore a crimson shirt that gave out the size […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 22
TWENTY-TWO Kola nestled his head into his pillow, observing the stillness in the hospital ward. It was an early morning, probably six. Kola was in thought. What will really be the outcome of my DNA? Have I indeed been fathering a son that isn’t mine?. Kola shook his head, trying to dispel all the thought […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 21
TWENTY-ONE Nkiru wondered what kind of place this could be. A cluster of bushes here, then few baobab trees there which were led by a pathway. Something like a watermill was beating from a distance then cascading into a river that ran metres away into the cluster of bush. Nkiru found herself at a crossroad. […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 20
TWENTY A male nurse pushed Kola out of the theatre in a wheel chair. The surgery had been done. He looked sullen. He was gently laid into the bed. He stretched out, guiding his leg safely not to hurt it. He sighed down heavily after the process. His eyes had a glint of utter sadness. […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 19
LOVE AND LIES NINETEEN Kola’s right leg was hung up at a side of the bed, bandaged. It reeked really bad. He couldn’t shake nor move it. He looked crestfallen as he laid in the hospital bed staring into the distance and thinking about his life. The emergency room of the hospital had been really […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 18
LOVE AND LIES EIGHTEEN Tony had been able to con a man of $120, 000. A man called Walter, a Lebanese business mogul who inherited most of his wealth from his father, an oil merchant. Walter had made an arrangement to buy a house in Nigeria to facilitate his travel. How he got involved with […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 17
LOVE AND LIES SEVENTEEN Kola drove out into the mist of the morning. A faint sun was already peeping out from the clouds. Fresh breezes coursed and careened through the open, whistling a distance off. A haze seemed to hang up in the sky blurring the clouds. Kola jarred off worriedly, speeding through a free […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 16
LOVE AND LIES SIXTEEN Kola stepped out of the room dressed in a Ralph Lauren Polo that structured his muscular chest and well-trimmed his broad shoulders. A pair of blue Chinos trousers ran down to his feet over some laced El Haye shoes. He had a gold-encrusted Invicta watch gleaming from his wrist. His face […]
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