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“This is a spanking new blog series that would amuse and delight you” Olatoye Omotolani Joy Ojo  The other day K and I were gisting, obviously not our first time, but this particular topic is the regular couples’ dreaded talk. No normal couple will allow their conversation travel to that extreme. We were conversing about

“It’s three years already?”  Tempus fugit is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as “time flies”. And yes its been three years already. Time indeed flies when you are having fun. I stumbled on my second anniversary blog post, exactly a year ago, and I knew there was no way I wouldn’t be putting

“A dream is a wish your heart makes.” ~ Walt Disney Read the second episode here Part 3 *** Kunle flung his brief case on the bed, later that morning. Then he rummaged through his well-arranged-clothes drawer for his international passport. He found the small green booklet nestled at the back of the lower drawer, in

“A dream is a wish your heart makes.” ~ Walt Disney Read the first part here Hayden moved like his knees were just hinges, wobbling to and fro on the soft center rug before falling on his padded bottom.  Then he clapped like it was all part of the plan and rolled to his stomach to

“A dream is a wish your heart makes.” ~ Walt Disney 12th July 2013 “Wait – what was that noise?” Harriet froze, then cocked her head ever so slowly as though in slow motion. Her eyes darted to the left and right, as she tried to figure out where the sound came from. She sucked in

“I am the bomb that bursts through the very heart”  The blast knocked him to the ground. About fifty miles away from where  the explosion rocked, waves of tremor, so intense, collapsed many buildings on both sides of the popular Old Town Road, located right in the heart of the city. He laid motionless.    Across the

“There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.” ~ T. S. Eliot  You certainly haven’t met Mr. Flo, if you did, you wouldn’t forget him in a hurry. He wore a map of wrinkles on his face like a badge of

“Some things are only real if you believe in them” Unknown Please follow the story from here The minute Charles stepped out of the banking hall into the daylight, it felt oddly bright, casting the adjoining structures into dark shadows against a sky of palest blue.  The sun had taken it’s rightful place in the

“Some things are only real if you believe in them” Unknown Charles wasn’t sure what to make of the last few moments. He wasn’t close to being religious and had not set foot within the four walls of a church in 4years, but the scrawny looking teenager, dressed in an off-white robe down to his

“Being drunk is the fool’s anesthetic. It puts the primitive self in command when it is the worst captain of all”  Danjuma drank like a child who hadn’t seen water for a week. But this was no child, and it certainly wasn’t water he was drinking. With each gulp his Adam’s apple bobbed violently and

“If you lay down and make a baby, then stand up and be a daddy”  Please catch up on the first part of this short story here. It was Stanley’s new girlfriend that got the door. She was half cladded in her undersized lacey bra with one hand clutching a towel over her humongous bosom.

“Always the innocent are the first victim”  Please read the first part of this story here Joseph managed to raise himself off the bloody mess on the red rug that had been his adversary. He was grotesque. Already his eyes were swollen over, and bloody spit drooled from his partly slack jaws. The three men

“Voyeurism is considered to be the most common sexual law-breaking behaviour in general populations“ Frank was waiting for the right moment. His unsteady eyes darted back and forth the hall way. A few distance away he heard footsteps and what seem a non distinct voice of a young intern, who was pacing about the corridor

“If you lay down and make a baby, then stand up and be a daddy”  Adora looked out of the window as the cab raced past a cluster of wooden kiosk by the road curb at dizzying speed. She let her brain daydream for a bit but her eyes could barely keep up with the

“Love or just fake love?”  It was a colorful cocktail party and it looked every classy and glamourous. Christy was certain that the crowd were the decent lot, where she was so ready to meet someone new.  She picked each man in a suit carefully with her eyes before analyzing every detail about them. He

“Always the innocent are the first victim”  They say a bad parent was a traumatized child, caught in the fires of their own suffering. I guess that’s probably right. But how right could this be? If you ever met someone as cute as Daniella, you would rethink everything about having beautiful and innocent kids. With

“Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.” Unknown The slaps came in quick successions. Bola didn’t see it coming. It stung her square in the face. The imprints of his finger splayed over her face like a tattoo. For a moment she lost audibility in

“Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock”unknown It was a rainy Saturday morning, one in which the rains refused to subside. Tunde had just woken up from his long hours of sleep and got up to take a leak. “Woman, get up and get me something

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; Its lethal.”  Part 3 Please catch up on Part 2 here. They had lunch at a wooden shack with rusty corrugated roofing sheets that had holes that let in the rays of the afternoon sun like bullet holes. A small wall fan labored in vain in the