She was living in the neighborhood of a house I rented an apartment in last year. I only used to see her around the house. We didn’t talk much except for the occasional small talk. Stuff like, “Hello, how are you?” Or “Hi, where have you been? I haven’t seen you in so long. Did you travel?” Our conversations only stayed on the surface but she always had a warm and bubbly demeanor. Whether I talked to her on a rainy day or on a sunny day, she spoke with the freeness of a two-year-old. Her energy was so pure…
Author: town gist
I had completed SHS and was still figuring out what to do with my life when I met him. Before him, my future looked very bleak. I had dreams. I had big plans. But I didn’t have the push I needed to execute them. He gave me that push. He was the one who gave me money to buy tertiary school forms. When I gained admission he said, “Don’t worry about your school fees. I will take care of it.” I couldn’t believe that someone who was only my boyfriend was willing to invest so much into my future, but…
“Carla got the shock of her life when she was fired for helping a disabled boy. However, the next day, she got a call that changed her life forever. The moment Carla’s life turned upside down, nothing in the world could have prepared her for it. She had always believed that whatever troubles came her way while she was working her shift at the Paradise Restaurant, she would be able to handle it. However, she had no idea the trouble would come to her because of her skin color. She was attending to a customer and taking their order when…
“Woman gives birth to special-looking baby. Doctor is shocked when doing a DNA test. Karen felt an intense pain in her lower belly and she knew it was time. She yelled for her husband, Frank, who quickly ran to her side and held her into the car as they drove to the hospital. Karen tried to control her breathing, but the contractions were coming too fast.Finally, they arrived at the hospital and Frank rushed her into the Maternity Ward. Karen’s labor lasted for a grueling 48 hours during which Frank never left her side. He held her hand, wiped her…
There had never been such a big police presence in and around this sleepy rural village in Central America, but ex-police dog Zena had shaken things up massively when she would not stop barking at a seemingly random tree. Only when her owner managed to break it open did he realize what Zena had detected inside. He immediately called the police, and they came with every available officer.The first officer that arrived could not believe what he was witnessing. How could it have come to this, hidden in a tree nonetheless? Deep down, he and everybody else at the force…
He ticked all my boxes. He was exactly everything I wanted in a man. I looked at all his amazing qualities and said, “Finally, I have met the man I want to spend the rest of my life with.” Our connection was beautiful. I was so excited about the kind of intimacy we shared that I did not pay attention to physical attraction. What I mean is, that I did not stop to consider whether or not I felt aroused by him. We courted for ten months and got married in the eleventh month. Before we tied the knot, we…
After the birth of our second child, my husband fell sick. It was really bad. I feared we were going to lose him until we went to the hospital. The doctors stabilized him, ran some tests, and then discussed their diagnosis with me. Your husband has depression and high blood pressure,” they declared. They assured us that he would be fine as long as he took his medications regularly. He was given a diet plan to manage the pressure. With time, he got better as the doctors assured us. I was ready for us to resume our marriage until I…
The heavy church doors swung open with a loud creak. In burst a young Black girl, no more than 9 years old. “Daddy, I need you!” she cried out at the top of her voice. The priest looked up in shock. Who is this child? Why is she here,? And why is she calling the priest “Daddy”? Celeste was only nine, but she had seen more hardships than many adults experience in an entire lifetime. She had bounced from one foster home to another for years, never staying in one place long enough to call it home. Celeste’s mother had…
I don’t remember what I was doing or exactly which day it was when I met Mahmoud in November 2020. I remember how I felt though. Giddy. When he smiled, it felt like a soft wind blowing gently against my skin. I was happy that we started talking that day. The interest was mutual. I suppose that was what made it easier for us to start seeing each other romantically in 2021. By then we had established our friendship and gotten to know ourselves better. He was sweet, caring, and very supportive. When he met me, I didn’t have a…
Nobody at the police believed that they would ever find this old Volkswagen van again. The owner had been coming in nearly weekly, begging for them to keep looking. It was obvious that something else was going on with this win. When the police finally found the vehicle, they quickly discovered what was really going on with it.At first glance, the inside of the old van looked normal; you could see that it had been abandoned in the forest for decades, but nothing else was out of the ordinary. That is until they started to investigate the vehicle a bit…