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LIGHTNING IN YOUR EYES
Peace Osemwengie February 12, 2023 0
First, you are born. Then you're doing your thing, maybe fetching water from a clear stream, the fish swimming around your a...
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Original , Short story , society , Thoughts
UUHDEMÉ
Peace Osemwengie February 08, 2023 0
Mama had a daughter, and she named her Udeme. Her classmates referred to her as UUHDEMÉ, because that was what her mother had wr...
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REMEMBRANCE
Peace Osemwengie January 31, 2023 0
Blood leaked from me, red creeks crisscrossing a brown highway. The morning was quiet, unusually so. There was no pounding of ya...
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EASY IS HARD
Peace Osemwengie January 31, 2023 0
Easy is hard. Ask the ancestors. Women don't come cheap, food doesn't come because you planted and war doesn't seek ...
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HOT HOT HOT
Peace Osemwengie January 31, 2023 0
Hot. The air burns the lungs, the sky burns the head, the tarred road singes the feet. The eyes droop, the joints ache, the skin...
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Experimental , Original , society , Thoughts
THE UNWILLING
Peace Osemwengie January 17, 2023 0
She spat the words that brought me to life. Again. They say that life is a confirmation of hope, a surety of the triumph of will...
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TILL THE END
Peace Osemwengie December 26, 2022 0
I hear voices in my head. They’re not the same, They don’t sound the same. I know they’re strange and shouldn’t be there. They a...
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