Dossou Adenike, is an aggrieved woman seeking divorce in a Lagos Island Customary Court. She has alleged that her husband for 12 years, Mr. Segun Dossou, a Benin Republic national, inserts his fingers into the private parts of his young daughters while bathing them.Adenike said she was shocked to realize that her husband had been carrying on with the ungodly act anytime he volunteered to bath the children, aged 8, 10 and 12 respectively, adding that on more than three occasions, she had woken up to find her husband missing from their bed only to find him sleeping beside their…
Author: town gist
A restaurant owner sees a neatly dressed girl digging through the trash near his luxurious establishment and follows her. What he discovers in the process leaves him teary-eyed.”Make sure the leftovers are sorted and placed in the bin behind the restaurant. Is that clear, Chef Smith?” Jack Monfield ordered his head chef.”Yes, Mr. Monfield,” Chef Smith nodded. “I’ll see to it that it’s done as you requested.” Jack Monfield had ordered his staff to dispose of all leftovers in a special bin behind the restaurant for the homeless after the day’s business. He’d done it after seeing a group of…
Jacob was known for volunteering at an orphanage in his town. One day, a little girl asked him if he had come for her, but he had no idea what to say. Then he discovered why she said that, and Jacob cried for the first time in a while. Afterward, he made an important decision.“It’s been a normal day, Mr. Murphy. But we got a new little girl, and she’s adorable. I’m sure she’ll be adopted soon,” one of the employees, Kara, at Sunshine Acres Children’s Home, told him. Jacob had been a volunteer at this orphanage in Mesa, Arizona…
A college student brings his new girlfriend home for Thanksgiving but forgets to warn his meat-loving family that she is a vegan.None of it would have happened if Dylan Ulrich wasn’t such a poser, or at least, that was his bother Dean’s opinion. What would go down in family legend as the Great Turkey Caper only happened because Dylan always followed his current girlfriend’s lead in everything.When he was dating a political activist, he marched in protests. When he dated a Goth, he wore black lipstick and listened to depressing music. But the family had no idea his latest girlfriend…
A woman’s act of compassion towards a small hungry boy would one day change her life in the most unexpected way.We are all taught to be compassionate, charitable, and kind, but the truth is that we seldom are. How many times do we look away from those in need because it’s too depressing or unpleasant to think about?This is a story about a woman who didn’t turn away from someone in need — and she never imagined that that one small kindness would transform both their lives.Heather Graham considered herself a lucky woman. She had a loving husband, adoring children,…
Ben and Martha Gibson lost their son, Michael, in a hit-and-run accident a couple of years ago. Since then, Ben’s furniture shop lost a lot of business, and they could barely pay their bills until envelopes of money started appearing on their doorstep. Eventually, Ben caught the person sending them and couldn’t believe who he was.“We’re going to have to sell the store, honey. It’s not working out,” Martha said with a long sigh while looking at the finances of their furniture store located in Reno, Nevada. She and her husband, Ben, had built the shop from the ground up,…
A woman finds an abandoned baby in a forest cottage and decides to hand her over to the cops. 23 years later, their paths cross again when a homeless woman claiming to be the baby’s mother shows up on her doorstep.”Are you Darby Jones, the photographer who clicked this picture?” Elora asked in a trembling voice as she handed a baby’s picture to Darby.”Yes, that’s me. But where did you find this picture? I took it 23 years ago!” Darby responded, startled by the sight of a poor woman dressed in rags on her doorstep. Her face was riddled with…
After selling his grandmother’s house, Alex decided to send her to a nursing home despite his earlier promises. When she died of old age, he only received an envelope with a few dollar bills and a short message that would haunt him forever.Amber closed the book she was reading, sighing and taking her reading glasses off. Her favorite nurse, Anna, announced that her grandson had come to visit, and she knew why he was there: money. That’s all Alex ever cared about, and believe it or not, his wife, Katherine, was even worse. She made the worst mistake of her…
An old woman secretly started pilfering leftover food from the high-end restaurant she started working in to make ends meet; she was eventually caught by the owner who followed her one day to find out why. “We’ll be back by evening.” That was the last thing Rosa heard from her daughter-in-law’s lips on the day she lost her and her son, Ron Walter. The couple had brought their daughter Ellie to stay with her while they took some time for themselves. They had been having fights because their careers seemed to be the priority for them both, meaning neither of…
One night, Douglas heard cries coming from the woods near his ranch. Thinking it could be a bear, he took his dog and discovered a boy shivering in the cold. The following morning, the boy told Douglas where he lived, but the roads were covered in snow, so Douglas had a choice to make and it shocked the boy’s parents.“There, there, boy. Good boy, Hank. Let’s keep going,” Douglas encouraged his dog as they trekked through the woods behind his ranch, deep in the more secluded parts of Root River Valley. He loved this area all his life and purchased…