A poor boy who worked at a warehouse near a closed bike shop noticed a dog visiting the store daily. Curious, he decided to follow it one day and see where it would go. Michael Phillips lives independently at 15. He came from a poor family, and his parents lived in a small shack near the farm they worked at. Growing up, his parents never cared about him. They saw him as a burden, and would often leave him at the shack the entire day without any food, so Michael had to be resourceful by finding ways for him to…
Author: town gist
A young woman who is ashamed of her crippled mother tells her to pretend to be a maid when her wealthy fiancé comes to visit.Nicky Weaver was a selfish, spoiled girl, and if we were to be 100% honest, we’d have to lay the blame at her mother Sophia’s door. After all, Sophia had done the spoiling, lavishing love, attention, and all she could afford on Nicky…Nicky was an only child, and Sophia’s husband had left her when she’d been severely injured in a car crash when their child was just three years old. Sophia had survived, but her injuries…
A poor mother doesn’t let anyone inside her house for years, but one day when a plumber arrives there on an emergency call, he’s left dismayed by what he discovers inside.”She’s a weirdo, and we have nothing to do with her or her kids,” Joyce, the eldest in her neighborhood, told the town’s newcomers during their evening gathering. Joyce had called a meeting with the newcomers, as she always did, taking pride in being the oldest in the neighborhood and warning them to avoid Joan, the woman who never let anyone inside her house.”But why is that, Mrs. Henderson? Can…
Russian politicians are now demanding an ‘immediate withdrawal’ from Ukraine as 1115 soldiers are fired for refusing to take part in the invasionCommunist deputy Leonid Vasyukevich, 69, a veteran Russian legislator recently issued an appeal to Vladimir Putin to stop military action, bring his troops home, and end the war in Ukraine.He condemned the use of Moscow’s servicemen in Ukraine, as a Russian court dismissed more than 115 national guardsmen in the first case of soldiers refusing to fight in Ukraine as politicians demanded the army return home. Members of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, a separate military…
My wife of two years suddenly started denying me sex, no explanation, no quarrel, absolutely for no reason. I have been trying to understand what her reason for the recent change in character was but I can’t place my hands on anything. I have spoken to her in the calmest manner you can ever think of yet she has not changed. It even got to a point that I had to involve her mom but nothing positive came out of it. I also spoke to her younger sister who she bonds very well with but there was no change. I…
Embarking on relationships is not always easy. You start out as strangers, you know each other, and then you decide if you like each other enough to be together. But sometimes, there are strong reasons for not staying in that relationship.According to Susan T. Bett, the person you choose to spend your life with can even determine what you will achieve in your professional life. The right partner makes all the difference. It is always difficult to decide when to leave versus when to stay and solve the problem – your emotions make it difficult to be objective.However, there are…
I know women can be a lot of things but I always felt my wife was different. She has never given me a reason to doubt her or the things she can do but at the moment, my heart is in pieces. My wife of 5 years whom I have two kids with has been cheating on me since God knows when. The worst thing is that it has been happening right under my roof with my brother. My blood brother who I’ve sacrificed so much for has been fucking my wife and I never knew. I gave so much…
Please help me. I am 38 and unmarried. I have been very unlucky when it comes to relationships and that is one of the reasons why I am still unmarried. In addition to that, I think I have problems with my attitude. The way I react or approach people usually turns them off and they tend to withdraw from me. I speak to people in a derogatory manner and they begin to avoid me. I have had so many suitors before but after about two weeks or a month, they stop calling or picking my calls. I know I have…
I have been living with my married sister who pays my college fee and all other expenses. My brother-in-law is rather humble and a very hardworking committed Christian. They have three children together and they seem quite happy. I recently discovered something that puts me in a very awkward position. My sister has been cheating on her husband for quite some time so much so that two of their children were sired by two different men. Caught her cheatingThis is how I found out. I was away visiting my parents in the village and I came back after about four…
Police in South Africa are probing the death of three brothers, Lehlogonolo, Katleho and Tebogo Khoabane, who died after consuming poisoned energy drink given to them by their father.The boys aged 16, 13 and 6, died on Thursday morning, May 26, in Heidelberg, Gauteng. A fourth sibling is fighting for his life in hospital while a fifth didn’t take the drink.It was gathered that the father allegedly gave his five sons the drink mixed with poison which four of them drank when they arrived at school. It is believed the man also gave the same drink to a dog which…