Camilla finished washing the last dish, soon noticing that all her co-workers had already left. She then changed her clothes, grabbed her purse, and left through the front door, saying goodbye to the guard before heading home. The next day, she went back to business as usual but noticed that all her co-workers were looking at her suspiciously. Suddenly, an employee named Leah told her that money had gone missing yesterday. But not only that, Leah immediately blamed Camilla for what happened. “Camilla constantly brings that bag,” Leah accused. “Surely that’s where she hides what she steals.” “No, that’s not…
Author: town gist
Ten days after the birth of her triplets, the mother feels a huge pain in her chest. Triplets are very special, and the odds of having them are one in ten thousand, so it is not something we will all experience in a lifetime. However, this was the case for American Cassie Roth from the state of Kansas. She was pregnant with triplets. She and her husband, Joe, were thrilled to be expecting three children at the same time. Who wouldn’t be thrilled? Cassie and Joe had a great love affair that only got better with this special gift. From…
Cop pulls over black police captain by mistake. What happens next is shocking. Officer Jenny Thompson and her partner, Tom Stevens, were patrolling through the city, driving their police cruiser. A tense atmosphere prevailed as Tom complained to the others about certain recent transformations in the management of the police department. “Can you believe they put one of them in charge?” Tom muttered angrily, gripping the steering wheel with his fist. “This department is going to hell.” Jenny fidgeted in her car chair. It was embarrassing how naïve she was. She’d been a part of the force for only a…
My wife, Suzzy, and I have been married for the past four years. The first time we met at a mutual friend’s birthday party at his residence in Cantonments.The party went late into the night so around 2:00 AM, I decided to drive back home to Tema. My friend pleaded with me to drop Suzzy, his work colleague at her place on my way home. That was the first time during the night that I interacted with her. My friend had mentioned her in conversation several times in the past so I was glad to finally put a face to…
Tara Lawson had always believed in hard work and humility. In her early 40s, she carried herself with quiet confidence—the kind that came from years of dedication and overcoming countless obstacles. Tara was a woman of substance, though you’d never know from the way she moved through the hospital halls wearing the simple uniform of a nurse. Today, she was filling in for a colleague who was on leave, taking on duties she hadn’t performed regularly in years. But this didn’t bother her. Tara wasn’t one to flaunt titles, and no task was beneath her. She had started her career…
According to my people, when a girl is the only child of her parents she is not allowed to get married. Custom demands that she lives in her parents’ house and reproduce to continue their lineage. I didn’t know about this until I was expected to uphold this tradition.My father has other children, but I happen to be the only child he has with my mother. Which makes me the only child of my parents. I don’t know if they couldn’t have other children or they just chose not to. They had the means to cater for more children so…
For the past two weeks, I’ve been sharing the same room with my mom. I sleep next to her on the same bed. I only have one job, that’s to ensure that she’s alright and she doesn’t do anything funny to herself. She hardly sleeps. She might close her eyes and pretend she’s sleeping but I see through the pretence.When she sleeps she snores gently. When she’s pretending to sleep, that snore is absent. Instead, she’ll turn around and around until morning. Some nights, she sneaks out of the room to the hall and cries. I see her going out…
Years ago I was dating this married man who from all indications loved his wife from here to the moon and back. I’m not assuming, he told me that himself. He said, “I loved my wife and my family and there’s nothing I won’t do for them but you here serve a special purpose. A purpose my wife is too old to serve and too distracted to care. I asked him, “So what purpose is that?” He answered, “Of course, you should know. We’ve been married for over eighteen years. Things are not the same. We have kids and have…
Our marriage is only nine months old. We dated for four years before we finally got married. Within the four years that we dated, he was all about shuperu and more. He wanted it and I had no reason to keep it from him so I gave it to him whenever he wanted it. I won’t say it’s the shuperu that kept us glued together but its contribution can’t overemphasize. We could fight for days and it would the only thing that would bring us together. It was always different after a fight.The way he gives his all and the…
I walked into an eatery one afternoon to order takeout. While I waited for my food I kept busy with my phone. A man walked up to me with determination on his face. He smiled and said “Hello my name is Victor. I have been trying to get your attention from my table over there (he points to a far-off table).You didn’t even blink in my direction.” I looked at him and said “Sorry I’ve been engrossed with my phone.” He said “I can see that. I suppose that’s how to get your attention, through your phone. Can you give…