Year: 2023
Love & 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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 15
LOVE AND LIES FIFTEEN Lara stepped out of the bathroom with just the towel swung round her. Bead of water-drops streaked and ran down through her face. Her hair was packed into a polythene. Her b****t dangled under the roll of towel she strapped round her, clapping at each move of her footstep. She dropped […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 14
FOURTEEN Nkiru hadn’t had s*x for weeks now. She had the urge but Kola had shown no interest. He would lay like a log every night. He was simply indifferent. Nkiru wriggled restlessly as she lay in bed before she pulled her quilt over herself for some warmth. It was six in the morning. She […]
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