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The Widow of no.9 Street Chapter 3: Wrong move
My office was a one-storey wooden structure overlooking Mrs. Stella’s sugar plantation. Mrs. Stella was confident that I had no interest in the new girl. And so, she allowed the new girl bring me coffee in the morning and she didn’t complain whenever the new girl spent her late afternoons in my office when she…
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Accidental thoughts – 8
Father in heaven For every smile we put on a face We discovered your face Smiling at our faith In our brother’s fate
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A bullet
Envy, hardened into a bullet, silenced the voice you and I heard so often on the radio. It was nobody’s business that he grew up an orphan in a ghetto, wondering what it meant to have a father and a mother. It never mattered to anyone the struggles that punctuated his rise to fame. Now…
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Bees and Cheese – 1
Tell Aziz that Tel Aviv has been ceased by fleas minting fees out of Jews with ease.
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Accidental thoughts – 7
How shall we honor a master? By decorating him with a badge The badge of a sack of mistakes Mistakes he’s made And now learnt to avoid And in avoiding each previous mistake Traced his path to mastery
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Learn to disappoint people
Promise nothing. Someone wants to know if you can make time to teach them English. Say NO. You don’t have time. Another wants to know if you could visit their church on Sunday. NO. You will be at your own church on Sunday. And there’s one old man who gives you a number to contact.…
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The Widow of No.9 Street Chapter 2 : Offside Traps
July 3, 9am. A cool Monday morning preceded by a few drizzles. A truck arrives at Mrs. Stella’s house to offload goods ordered two months ago. Usually, Mrs. Stella would yell at a worker mal-handling her goods whenever she noticed one. But ever since she admitted she was in love with me, I noticed she’s…
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Accidental Thoughts – 6
It is where trust comes from A long journey So when you see a fine woman Remember, she was not always that fine Someone took her Raw, full of defects And saw beauty Where everyone saw flaws So you too Be mature And stay And work on your woman Stay together through thick and thin…
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Pay attention
Pay attention to how you react to stress. One time my problems were so overwhelming, I cut my sim card into two and threw it away. For weeks, I was out of reach. The brief period of shutting myself from the rest of the world helped me heal emotionally very quickly. All the connections to…
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The Widow of No.9 Street Chapter 1 : Close Encounter
There was silence after she spoke. I noticed her eyes were fixed on the table before her and she would not lift them to look at me. Her breathing was slow and hard, beads of sweat formed on her forehead. She waited for my reply. I was blank. What should I say? My mind replayed…
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