Life Lessons from Stories

Blood in the Water – Chapter 6 4.15am Saturday Chapter Six 4.15am Collins shook his head in despair. For a moment, confusion had set in just as fast as he had seen the motorcycle race away. Lost in thought he questioned the conundrum. Princewill had shown that it was each person for themselves. And the […]

Blood in the Water – Chapter 5 3.27am Saturday Chapter Five “If you dare move!” It was the voice of a soldier armed to the teeth with one of his colleagues. They were not joking when they popped out of the dark fringes of the bush nearby. It was as though they were in the

Blood in the Water – Chapter 4 2.03am Saturday Chapter Four Outside, there was no traffic or bird song or passersby. It was all eerie dark and incredibly silent. By now it was way past midnight- the time in which today becomes tomorrow. The asphalt on the road was a glossy black, like a wet

Blood in the Water – Chapter 3 12.10am Friday Chapter Three Bilkiss looked amazing in the mini-dress she had on that night. It was flattering, cute and gave her a sense of feminine confidence. Her dress sat above her knees when she walked over with the boys to their table. When she sat, it rose

Blood in the Water – Chapter 2 9.12pm Friday Chapter Two Collins and Princewill have been friends for only a couple of months. They had an astonishing common interest and for as long as they shared the same passion about women, sex, drinks, the excitement, extravagance, and risk-taking of life on the fast lane, then

Blood in the Water – Chapter 1 When two friends set out for an evening of mad fun, they had no clue how the night would turn. They had no idea it was going to be the longest nights of their lives – one that would change their lives forever. The two friends would soon

The Necklace – a short story By Guy Maupassant – a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Story time! The first time I read this story

The Underdog who proved himself right Fight like the underdog and finish like the favorite. Story time! I have thought about the best way to tell this story for many months and the excitement about writing it gave me the illusion that it would take a good chunk of my quiet time to really do

Prisoner of Fate -One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it Chapter 13 -“You can’t kill a dead man” Please catch up on Chapter 12 here Chapter 13 You can’t kill a dead man By the time Benjamin got to the bus park in Keffi, he was starting to feel