My Mother

My mother episode 7

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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My mother episode 6

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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My mother episode 5

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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My mother episode 4

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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My mother episode 3

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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My mother episode 2

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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