I closed from a Saturday class and was on my way home when a man called from behind. We were four girls walking together, so all of us turned back to look at the one doing the calling. He pointed at me, “The girl in jeans, yeah please come.” I was young. Only twelve or thirteen. I’d been told to respect the elderly so I told my friends, “Please don’t leave me. I’ll be back right now.” I thought he was going to ask something about my school or he was going to send me to get him something. When…
Author: town gist
I was with Musa for eight years. He was my entire world. I, on the other hand, was a continent in his world. I am assigning myself a big chunk like a continent because what we had was deep and meaningful. He cared about me. I knew that. However, he didn’t love me enough to stick with only me. He had other girls on the side. Lots of them. He is handsome so the women naturally flock to him like bees to flowers. Musa didn’t have much but he knew how to make me feel loved and desired. That’s why…
I am a man in my late thirties. I am married, and I have two children. My first child is seventeen, I had him before I met my wife. So he is currently living with his mother, who is my ex-girlfriend. My second child is five, my wife and I had him seven years after we got married. Before we got married, my wife and I dated for three years. During that period she never did my laundry. I am the one who would wash my clothes and wash hers too. Sometimes her dirty clothes would be lying in my…
A man notices a little girl waving at him from a mysterious house where no one is supposed to be living and decides to find out who she is. Tim Jenkins had one of the most unappreciated and necessary jobs in the world: he took away the garbage. Every morning, long before dawn, he and his colleague would drive around the town and take away the refuse the inhabitants had collected the previous day. No one ever saw them, or at least, no one except for one little girl. Every morning, Tim would get off the garbage truck in front…
A husband abandoned his wife and kids shortly after an accident, but a few years later, he ran into her in a park. The former couple now had new lives, and the husband felt bad seeing his ex-wife with another man. Amelia Raymonds was a very pretty girl who had it great from her childhood. She was from a middle-class family, and they cherished formal education. While growing up, she excelled in class, which made her family proud. Things were not bad for the straight A-student as a senior high school student or college student. She had a charming personality…
A cafe owner named Henry decided to do a little experiment to see who his true friends were. In the end, he was surprised to find out that everyone he knew ignored him except for a poor man who offered him help. Henry Luz was a wealthy owner of a crowd-favorite Spanish cafe. It was a family business that he put up in his neighborhood. The cafe made sure to pay homage to his Spanish heritage, as his father was an immigrant who moved to the US decades back to live the “American Dream.” The cafe featured authentic Spanish dishes…
I was only thirteen when my mother insisted on dragging me to the hospital with her. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t think she was either. So I asked her, “Why are you taking me to the hospital instead of allowing me to go to school?” She answered, “The doctor says I have to come with someone I trust.” The next question I asked her was, “What is my stepdad doing that you won’t go with him?” She explained that I am the only one she trusts with her life. At the hospital, the doctor saw me and said, “Your mother…
Please hide my identity. This situation is very important and I really need a way out. I am 26 and I would be finishing my youth service very soon. I graduated from Usman Danfodiyo university Sokoto with a First Class in the department of Economics. While I was in school, I was dating this guy who was very nice to me. We started dating when I was in second year and even though we were just students and uncertain about what life had in store for us, I loved him deeply and was very willing to walk through life’s uncertainties…
When they moved into his childhood home, Mark forbade his wife, Amelia, from entering the old room at the end of the hallway. But one night, she heard something strange and decided to investigate later when Mark was not home. However, he caught her and revealed the truth. Mark grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, but he moved to New York for university and met Amelia during his senior year. They fell in love, got married, and worked in the city for several years. But Mark didn’t tell her that he owned his childhood home back in Baltimore until it was…
Ryan loved his wife very much and decided to surprise her after work. But when he arrived home, he heard some weird noises coming from her bedroom and he was sure of what she was doing. One day, Ryan got home from work much earlier than usual. He wanted to surprise his wife Brittany. She wouldn’t expect her workaholic hubby to be back so early. Ryan is one of those guys who is the first to arrive at the office and the last one to leave. As Ryan stepped into the house and kicked off his shoes he was stunned…