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The Weeping Lecturer

In the morning, the heavens opened and it began to rain. Bella grabbed her umbrella to get to school, as she walked out of the hostel the first

Brotherhood a short story

"I need your help," Nkem said. "I have no dime on me right now, I'm yet to receive my wage," Nkem further explained.

The phone dropped on her ear. She rang the phone again. He busied the call. She tried reaching him it was "the number you are calling is not reachable please try again later or you can drop a voice message," was what she heard. She kept dialing his number, suddenly, "hello! hello!! hello!!! I can't hear you. What are you saying," he dropped the
phone on her ears.

It was clearer to her that he was actually avoiding her because he heard assistance. She began to realize that life is all about "Oyo" always "on your own" "Now I know that what one cannot do for herself nobody will be able to do it for her".

Nkem had seriously been struck with strange ailment for years, all her friends ran away, her relatives abandoned her. She laid on that same mat always, it was Almighty who was sustaining her. It was at a point when the food she stocked while she was working got finished that she began to seek for help which she later did not find.

Nkem wailed and wept but nobody came to her aid. She breathed her last.
As soon as she gave up the ghost people trooped in crying. But it was actually like a cinema, hence Nkem's apparition chased them away with invisible whip.


Life is full of ups and downs, in time of trouble is the best time to know true friends.

Start now to look out for real friends. 

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