When it rains
When it rains episode 13
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART13~ Barrister Mike Collins was a fifty-something year old man who looked kind and approachable. But looks can be deceiving. I thought to myself. I walked in with baited breath and what I heard next changed my life yet all over again. The real perpetrators of the fraud had been caught […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 12
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART 12~ “I am calling from Zenith constructions and planning. We will need you to come in for discussions please. Kindly treat as urgent. I sent a mail to the e-mail you provided during your recruitment but we have not received a response from you. When do we expect to see […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 11
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART 11~ “How are you Ginika?” He asked me spitefully dragging me away from my painful reminiscences โI can see you came for an interview here, still donโt have a job?โ He was laughing at me. The son of a gun was laughing at me. โGod will judge you Chike. Karma […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 10
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART 10~ “Mrs. Uchendu, how is work going?โ The CSO greeted me casually sitting on one of the visitorโs chairs lined up in front of my table. The two police men stood behind him saying nothing and just staring at me. โGood afternoon CSO, good afternoon gentlemen” I greeted the men […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 9
~WHEN IT RAINS….IT POURS~ ~PART 9~ Chikeโs people had argued that in their place, a bride price was not paid on the head of a pregnant woman and vowed to come back and pay my bride price once I delivered the baby. They only collected the bride price list and left. Chike convinced me to […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 8
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART 8~ โGinikaโ I heard my name being called in a voice I had tried to forget to no avail. A voice that still haunted me and broke my heart. I turned around to behold my ex-husband Chike alighting from the driverโs side while a fair complexioned slender girl alighted from […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 7
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART 7~ “Mama Chinyere, come out here immediately. You didnโt tell me you are now breeding prostitutes in your houseโ she shouted and pounded on our open sitting room door. โWho is that fool that wants to break down my door?” My mother questioned angrily rising from the settee. โIt is […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 6
~WHEN IT RAINS….IT POURS~ ~PART6~ โWhat is it Ginika?โ my mother answered angrily opening her door. โWhat is it that the whole neighborhood will not rest?โ she asked walking past me and my son and sitting down in the sitting room. I was beyond shocked at her behaviour. This woman obviously cannot be my mother […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 5
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART 5~ I left the backyard and made to go back to my room and check on Ebube when my sister Chinyere walked into the house. At twenty-seven, she was the youngest child in the family. The only son of the family, Ikenna, who was her immediate senior was thirty. Mama […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 4
~WHEN IT RAINS…IT POURS~ ~PART 4~ โGood afternoon Mamaโ I greeted my mother as I tried to walk past the living room without any of the usual confrontations. I just was not in the mood for anything except my bed and my angel. Mama was reclining on the three seater and watching her favourite channel, […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 3
~WHEN IT RAINS….IT POURS~ ~PART 3~ โAlago! Alago! Iduma! Iduma!โ shouted the bus conductor bringing me out of my reverie. I looked around seeing that I was already at the main gate of the estate where I had gone for the interview. There were few people on the road waiting for buses due to the […]
Read MoreWhen it rains episode 2
~WHEN IT RAINS….IT POURS~ ~PART 2~ โIf you hear your name, please stand up and move to the set of seats on my right. For those who wonโt be hearing their names, always know that in any test of knowledge, there will be those who passed and those who didnโt. I wish you guys all […]
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When it rains (complete story
~WHEN IT RAINSโฆ.IT POURS~ ~PART 1~ I looked up frustratedly as droplets of rain hit my face and my head. Wow! I thought almost close to tears. This is just what I need to end the crappy day. I had gone to an interview that morning that progressively got worse as the interview went on. […]
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