I have always had a simple dream for my life when I was growing up. Whenever our class teachers asked, “What do you want to be in future?” I would answer eagerly, “I want to be a nurse.” See? How hard can it be to achieve this dream? All I had to do was study hard and go to nursing school, then I would become a nurse. This was how I envisioned it all to go. I knew that I would need good grades to make it to nursing school. And to get those grades I must avoid all distractions.…
Author: town gist
My father started sleeping with me when I was in JHS. I was his favourite child. She paid my fees on time, bought me things he didn’t buy for my other siblings and always made sure I was alright. One night, I was sleeping when I felt a moving darkness had descended on me. I instinctively opened my eyes only to see my dad standing at my feet, casting a large shadow on me. I was sleeping next to my elder sister. My dad asked me to get up and follow him. I trusted him. A man who loved me…
We did it yesterday. Twice before the cock crowed. Early in the morning, he wanted it again but our second child woke up to get his plans thwarted. Two days ago we did it. Thrice before the break of dawn. The third one was very painful to me. I didn’t want to. I fought it with all my might but he succeeded in getting what he wanted in the end. Three days ago it happened. It was so fierce our five-year-old child woke up and started calling my name. The bed was shaking. He didn’t know why the bed was…
I met Kwamena on my 26th birthday. The day fell on a Tuesday and I had to go to work. My plans after work were to attend evening service and then go home and sleep. I just wanted the day to pass quietly. I happen to have some friends in the security service who didn’t agree with me. They insisted on taking me out to a party against my protests. That day things were very stressful at work and I closed to find my friends standing outside my office waiting to take me out. I didn’t want to go with…
She was nineteen when I found her. She sat next to me in a banking hall. She was waiting for her turn to pay fees and I was waiting for my turn to withdraw a cheque. Every now and then she would watch the screen of her phone and smile. The smile moved from a simple one to a wide grin. I could imagine she would have laughed out loud if she wasn’t in the banking hall. I nudged her with my elbow and asked, “What’s making you this happy?” She had her earpiece in her ears so she didn’t…
My twin sister and I were our daddy’s little treasures. He went everywhere he could with us. Everyone who knew him knew that we were his pride and joy. He often carried us and showed us to everyone; “Look at my princesses, aren’t they beautiful?” We enjoyed the attention and we worshipped him. As much as we wanted to follow him everywhere he went we couldn’t. Daddy was a busy man and so was our mother We had three older siblings who took care of us in our parents’ absence. We lived in a flat in a very beautiful residential…
I don’t know how we became friends on Facebook. I don’t remember sending her a friend’s request or responding to her friend’s request. I woke up one day and we were friends on Facebook. “Or maybe she was already planted on my app the day I installed it,” I said to myself. She posted something and I liked it. It became often. Whenever she posted an update, I was one of the few people who reacted to it. And then one day she posted a photo. I nearly scrolled past it but something about it drew my attention. “Is she…
I lost my father when I was ten years old. My mother was a seamstress who did not have formal education, but she worked hard to put us through good schools. We are three girls. I am the last born. When I got to the tertiary school, my elder sisters and my mother put resources together to cater for my education. In my second year in school, my eldest sister lost her job so I had to rely on government allowances for my fees and other needs. The money wasn’t enough but I tried to manage. Sometimes I got overwhelmed…
When we first met he was a perfect gentleman. He did the right things and said the right things. I was happy when he asked me to be his girlfriend. He is a driver so he spends a lot of time on the road. Because of this, every moment we got to spend together was precious to me. I cherished those moments because they were not the kind of moments I got every day. We didn’t spend a lot of time together when we were dating so I didn’t get to pay attention to certain things. The signs were there.…
We were going through premarital counseling when I discovered he was cheating on me. I saw a chat on his phone with a young university student. The part that hurt me was a text that read “I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you. You are the one I want to marry not her.” I didn’t need the genius to tell me I was the “her” he was referring to. I took the girl’s number from his phone and I called her. When she answered I told her, “Kwame is my fiancé and I just found out that he…