The Flowers Don’t Bloom in Winter
Tony was a divorcee and men like that often had no qualms about walking away a second time.
Tony was a divorcee and men like that often had no qualms about walking away a second time.
My mother does not believe in God anymore. She said he was quiet when her husband gave up his job at Dinah and followed another woman home.
Happiness and Iroegbunam were on a bus headed for her father’s hometown. She imagined that she was Mary on the run to Egypt to save Baby Jesus.
They didn’t let him play with the other children in the compound, didn’t let him do any strenuous activity. But these precautions didn’t stop Ekene from dying in his sleep.
“Who even named you Jesus? Of all the names in The Bible, of all the names wey dey dis world so, na the name wey no fit you at all dem give you.”
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