My Mother
My Mother episode 17
MOTHER! Episode 17 “Mother, you hated us because of someone who doesn’t worth it, throw your family away because of a man. A devil you had known they say is better than an angel you are just meeting. Mama have you even sat down to think of why Uncle Frank was never married during those […]
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MOTHER! Episode 16 “he died accidentally from me” my mother bursted into tears, I was really dumbfounded and Inquisitive so I asked her to tell me how it happened “When I had saw your car, outside, I had thought your father’s family had brought police men from city to arrest me, After you had left […]
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MOTHER! Episode 15 After two weeks, Johnson and I had arranged to visit my hometown, I felt indifferent about and there is a mixed feelings, I am happy going back to let my mother knows that after she had cursed me that I will never be successful, I want to show her that God is […]
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MOTHER! Episode 14 To my surprise we drove all along to Ring road and he stopped at a big building, he asked me to guess what they may be selling in that building and I could only guess that clothes, he smiled and said it is close but not it, we entered the building and […]
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MOTHER! Episode 13 I am also dying, groaning in pains and also thinking of what could make Johnson’s phone switched off, I cannot operate the chatting app he called WhatsApp for me. Johnson was battling with an armed robbery case just a building after his own office building, they had scattered everywhere and this happened […]
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MOTHER! Episode 12 …He looks worried as what could have gone wrong, and he assumed he has passed his boundary, he came to where I was and he said “Bukunmi, I don’t want you to think I am taking an advantage of helping you, I actually really like you so much. I have been fighting […]
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MOTHER! Episode 11 …At the hospital after series of test, the Doctor confirmed to me that I am pregnant, my head became heavy, I don’t even know what else the Doctor had said after the news because My mind has travelled far, what will become of me? abi how will I explain to the world […]
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MOTHER! Episode 10 Then he asked the shopkeeper to give me anything I want he will pay for it and then the shopkeeper gave me the bread and drink, I was eating like a glutton because I have not eating since, was rushing the drink and then had constipation just as I finished my last […]
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MOTHER! Episode 9 Not long after, Uncle Frank came in and my mother had told him all I said, then he said to my mom, “hmmm Ajoke, did you know why I left home? imagine your daughter seducing me, and when I did not give in to her request she said she will implicate me […]
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MOTHER! Episode 8 …Frank and I were the initial lover when I was growing up, I and Frank had been the talk of the town because they all had known both of as inseparable lovers, we were both in a Grammar school at those days But your Grandfather and my ,own Father were best of […]
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MOTHER! Episode 7 Uncle Frank and my mother would conspired against me to punish me, they will send me to go and fetch water from a stream that has distance of 30minutes. My life became miserable as I will be doing unnecessary house chores and running errands even if they don’t need them. This had […]
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MOTHER! Episode 6 … I took it to the room and I found Papa laying still on the bed with his eyes opened, I had been communicating to him, on how extra mile I went to get the food, I know he can’t communicate but my father have a way of demonstrating to compliment anything […]
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MOTHER! Episode 5 Then I will always tell papa that he will be fine, I had thought overnight that I am going to start working as from tomorrow, I will write letters to shops and offices if they can employ me for menial jobs so I can be buying drugs for my father, I don’t […]
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MOTHER! Episode 4 And then we rushed him to the hospital and my father was hospitalized for more than one week, my father had been an high blood pressure patient all along and I didn’t know about it, my father got paralyzed from the slum and the Doctor told us that with care he may […]
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MOTHER! Episode 3 There was a day my mom had gone out and I was cleaning our compound and I slipped my leg, got injured, everyone around had rush to me and it was quite much, they helped me to straighten it and I couldn’t walk very well, upon all this happening, when my mother […]
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MOTHER! Episode 2 I was born in a very small village or maybe not village but a small underdeveloped town with just little amenities like boreholes and public schools, I was born in a home where we don’t beg for food but we still lag behind in necessity of life, My father is a government […]
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My Mother by Olaiya Arikeade
Episode 1 Almost everyone in my village has called me to inform me about the present condition of my mother. I just dropped Aunty Veronica’s call, she called me when I was in a meeting with my staffs and when I was done I had to call her back. Aunty Veronica is my mother cousin, […]
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