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  The sun had just sunk into the clouds and a mantle of deep black was overshadowing the earth. There was a power failure, and flashlights and improvised lamps shone in the dark like the glowy

Courtship is a process every intending couple should pass through before deciding to tie the knot. Courtship basically involves getting close to each other and knowing each other intimately in other to

  was walking the passage to the classroom, a distraught highschooler who had just landed a sharp reprimand from the mathematics teacher. He hardly blinked at Samantha who was on her way to the

  What I refer to as seed in this context is money you get that should be invested to yield more money. Fruit are the money we get we can spend on ourselves. Read on to find out more.  I

  Juan blinked twice as the vivid images flickered before his eyes.  The images would appear like 3d visions dancing as they played out before his sight. When these hallucinations, as he

Happiness. That word that we can say defines man's ultimate purpose for being alive. Every human being craves happiness and will do anything to have it. We all have our various ideas of what it

The Legal and Medical professions. Right from when we were still kids, my parents have always spoken their minds frankly on having both a lawyer and a doctor in the family. This always left my mind

To move forward in life you have to let go of excuses. I will show you how.    Making excuses is second nature to most people. We always blame our failures, our inadequacies on someone or something.

  Emma was sitting at the table with Zac, the young lovely boy that had been in her care for two years now. Cups of coffee stood at the table oozing white steam. Bread, butter, toast, bacon sausage,

Dad sat at the wheels and the ash-brown Mercedes was covering the distances at a good speed. Now dad isn't a speedy driver, he was just taking his time for we were in no great hurry to make it

  ​​​​​​... That was several years ago.  Then mum was still alive and bubbling with health. Then we, her children, still dwelt under the shadow of her magnanimous love and care. My mum is

  The training was tough. I had just arrived from over the mountains my legs frozen stiff and dogtired from the long and laborious journey. Mr Dyani welcomed me into his home with an icy look

I have experienced a lot of unpleasant power outages in my area. Sometimes, we go a whole day without light. But the worst of it was one particular time we went three whole days without light.  This

  I am the second among five children in my family. Every child of the family is blessed with uniqueness in their own way, though I often like to think much less of myself than all my siblings.

This is my response to last week's prompt on the hive naija community which I missed. But I decided to write on it anyway. I will still write on this week's prompt.    I started blogging

King Ike was sitted at the dinning table eating a hearty breakfast alongside his lovely wife. The table had the princely build of perfect mahogany. It was also littered with all sorts of mouth-watering

Marco felt devastated by the news he saw in the morning paper that fateful morning. It was news of the shipwreck of the ocean going vessel The Traveller. He was totally devastated. His only brother

Being alone equals having a lot of thoughts, and having plentiful  thoughts also equal many unanswered mysteries. Such is the life we or should I say I, live. As an introvert, I am given to privacy,

RSVP. That's what began my journey to redemption. Then I was a hopeless drug addict and a drunk, before responding to that wedding invitation that changed my life.  I had lived with Jane my first

Cities have got their distinctive characteristics, I mean, the hustle and bustle, the blinking and flashing lights, and the rolling sounds of other man-made devices and phenomena. I live in the city. But