My mom died when I was seventeen years old. My dad remarried when I was twenty-one. I had my reservations about the woman he married but I didn’t make it known in any way. Immediately she entered the house, she started making me feel like I was a secondhand citizen in my own father’s house. She tried to give me the hardest job and escalated my little mistakes as if they were the worst mistakes ever made. At that time my dad had a voice so whenever she reported me to him and I explained my part of the story,…
Author: town gist
We met on Facebook. It was the idea of love that brought us together but we gave ourselves some time to know each other. We met in town often and went on dates often. One day I went to his house to visit and he proposed to me. Immediately I said yes, he started being touchy. I wasn’t comfortable. I wasn’t prepared to go on that stretch. I begged him to stop. When he wasn’t listening to me, I lied. “Let’s do it another day. I’m seeing red.” He stopped immediately. The next time I was going to see him,…
When I told Fiifi I was pregnant with his child he asked me, “So who is the father?” I was surprised he could ask this. “What do you mean by that?” I screamed, “Are you not the only man I have been doing it with?” This boy shook his head as if his ears were clogged with water. He raised his hands in denial, “Please, go and look for the person responsible for your pregnancy. It’s not me.” I did everything possible for him to accept responsibility but he stood his ground. Out of pain and frustration, I moved to…
Two months to our wedding, I took his phone to go through his photos. I wasn’t trying to snoop or catch doing anything. He hadn’t done anything to make me suspicious so I trusted him. However, for some reason, I accidentally opened his WhatsApp messenger. That was when I saw a chat between him and a certain girl. They were flirting. I confronted him and he said, “It doesn’t mean anything. I was talking to her because I was bored. Things just got out of hand. But I will block her.” He apologized profusely. Although I was disappointed in him,…
I grew up where I saw women selling themselves every night. Once the street lights come on, you’ll see them walking one after the other to the where the lights shine the brightest. They were like light bugs. They dot around the light as if it’s the light that gives them the energy to do what they do. My mom sold food by the streets at night. I would be next to my mom watching these girls do their business. I spoke to some of them. A few of them became friends and they asked of me whenever they came…
“When a little baby is left abandoned at a mall, his rescuers are shocked to discover that he was born without eyes, but it’s what happens to him later that is really shocking. In the heart of a bustling shopping mall, amidst the hustle and bustle of shoppers and the cacophony of voices, an unimaginable event unfolded. It was a moment that would change the lives of many forever.In a small, dimly lit bathroom stall, a newborn baby lay alone, wrapped in a threadbare blanket. He was born without eyeballs, a condition so rare and perplexing that it left his…
Jesse wanted a horse, nothing more and nothing less. Unfortunately, that was too much to ask for. She thought she found her dream horse, but when it was finally taken to a vet after a few days of horror, the vet looked at Jesse and said, “Dear lady, do you have any idea what this is?” It didn’t take the vet long to realize that Jesse had bought a very strange horse. But what was so special about this horse? Was it, in fact, a horse, and why did it turn the vet into a nervous wreck?It was an auction…
“This tourist was on a guided tour in the jungle when a gorilla ran straight towards her. When she saw it approaching, she froze in fear, but what it did next left her and everyone watching in shock.One fateful day, a young woman named Rose found herself alone in the jungle. Suddenly, a gorilla emerged from the nearby bushes and started moving towards her. She was shocked and didn’t know what to do. Her instincts were screaming for her to run, but she couldn’t. Her legs no longer obeyed her and refused to move. She wished she could start the…
When John saw a nun standing by herself on a dark, lonely road, he was skeptical about giving her a ride because the road was infamous. But Jon gave in to his kind nature. When the ride was over, the nun expressed her gratitude in a way that Jon did not expect. You won’t believe how she thanked him. Jon became a truck driver out of necessity. He had grown up in a home where he lacked parental love, care, and guidance. His father would constantly hit him, and his mom never found the courage to stand up for him.…
Vladislav stood alone near the newly buried grave, longing clutching his heart. Everyone who had attended the funeral and the burial of his wife, Elvira, had already slowly gone away, but Vladislav could not bring himself to take his eyes off the small mound of earth inside the freshly painted fence, with a small temporary monument covered solidly with wreaths. Here and there, from the ribbons around the wreaths, were the words: “Love,” “Remembrance,” “Dear Daughter,” “Beloved Spouse.” Thoughts were confused, interrupting each other and disappearing unfinished.Vladislav sat down on the bench set at his wife’s grave. “Why is it…