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Crazy Kiasi
In an interrogation room, deep in the heart of the city a police officer was really trying to understand what conspired that night in a high-rise apartment block, door 5B. Urgency was of the essence and the more the culprit failed to open up, a life was at risk. A lot was at stake. “Mary…
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Jolene
My delusions of you ended the day you disregarded my feelings,My delusions of you ended the day you laughed at my pain,My delusions of you ended the day i saw you move on right after our break up, my cries didn’t faze you,My delusions of you ended the day I saw you talk smack about…
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This thing called Love ♥
People wonder why I don’t like being on dating apps. Thing is we’re no longer in the 20th Century. Love as we know it has changed. People exchange their time, their body fluids for money. A concept I can’t grasp. I’m a complex being and want to be treated as such. One second in, talking…
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Hurts Like Brand New Shoes
Monday morning 6:30am A casual labourer is in a hurry to get to work. He passes a bridge and notices to his left what he assumes is a discarded mannequin. He doesn’t pay much mind to it as he is already late. An hour later, a mum is taking her son to school, at which…
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My Dear Sweet Violet
Roses are red, violets are blue, my heart started beating when I first saw you…. It was the summer of 1999 when I first saw you. When my mum opened the door and you were right behind her. I had to stop and gaze at your beauty. How can a Help be so charming, so…
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Ball and Chain
‘Uuuuwiiii! MWIZIII…MWIZI….Thief…. Thief!’ Screams of terror pierced through the calm of the night in my matrimonial home. In one of the most embarrassing events of my life, my kids had to witness. So I was caught pants down, actually I was butt shit naked. I was trying to seduce our house maid and things went…
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A Rose by any other Name…
Meryl sat at the back of the wheel of a car, hidden perfectly by the darkness shaded by the leaves of a palm tree. Patience please. She had been on that same position for the past three hours. It was the anxiety, had to be the anxiety because she wasn’t feeling the discomfort slowly creeping…
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TOXIC ☣️
‘The problem with toxic people is they are short sighted. They don’t think beyond their nose. So my husband thought that by treating us bad, we’d finally conform to his ways and agree to relocate with him to the countryside. Apparently he’s built a big mansion over there and from his sister’s mouth, he said…
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They Call it Banter
‘Guys jana nilikuwa na siku refu. So I decide to give an older gent a chance. He insists I tell him where I want to be taken for a date. First red flag because they use this to gauge where to financially put you. So I pick a coffee house with really fair prizes in…
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The Visitor
‘I’m passing by tomorrow. I want to taste your cooking.’ She read that message twice. The level of audacity men have nowadays can be appalling. She wondered if men of ‘long ago’ used to just invite themselves into women spaces. Where is the pride? Where is the ego? When did men get so sassy? And…
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The Inner Child
‘I met this guy a few days ago and his idea of a perfect date was to take me drinking. He didn’t even ask if I take alcoholic beverages. It was just straight to let’s go to Westy for fun. I was annoyed and blocked him.’ ‘I thought that stuff ended in campus. If you’re…
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Another One Bites the Dust
Early twenties man; come to my place. I promise I won’t do anything you don’t want me to. I’ll hold you in my arms as we watch the sunset and listen to some slow jams. I’ll even cook for you. What’s your favorite meal? Mid twenties man; all y’all females are liars. All you do…
Ca$hmere & Coffee 