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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Lower Frequency

Philip Ebuluofor

It must have been middle of june last year (i have not been able to check my entries) that i first saw her in that office sitting on the left side of that tax office talking to who i know not animatedly non stop in that office that seven staffs sitting inside that big hall demarcated by tables were all females and their boss same sex. Female. They call her Chi Chi which may be Chioma or Chinyere in my language whichever. When I look at her, I know that she is that type known as a "sealed bag" around here.  15th July 2024. I had gone ...

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Her Nature Refuses To Leave Her

Philip Ebuluofor

I have always been wary of old men and women and a little scared of meeting them alone in lonely isolated footpaths in the village pathways surrounded by overgrown shrubs on both side than I am of ghosts and the stories surrounding them. Those kinds of routes are almost in all the villages in my town that are part and parcel of every kid's memory as we grow up. I have an aunty, my father's younger sister that got married to one man about three villages away from ours. She is a cantankerous woman by nature. By my estimation, she is a good wom...

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Sicko

Philip Ebuluofor

 It was eerily arresting when I first set eyes on that skinny boy as he walked through the door with the woman that brought her to us. I had given them both and my mum space to discuss their things. She was the one that needed a helper. After about thirty minutes when his escort had gone leaving him with my mum, I approached him again and once again, the face looked so eerily familiar. My curiosity got the better of me and I asked him "Have we met before?" I got nothing as an answer but a shy smile and a negative shake of the head. &n...

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Black Book

Philip Ebuluofor

  "So, you mean you need to go to the restaurant first before contributing your share? And where is your visitor's share?" IK asked Eteroo who started lowering his voice while answering and piqued the interest of others in the room. "Where will you see Tendy to give him the money for him to buy the food items while coming back?" IK asked, raising his voice for the benefit of Eteroo's Visitor, whom he noticed that Eteroo doesn't want him to overhear what is being discussed. " Okay, here is his and I will give you mine later" the two...

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Lemon Tree

Philip Ebuluofor

Decades can be something else on their own. I was a brand new secondary school and dorm student in the mid '80s. That era made some of us with skeptical minds to start believing in what we read in ancient texts. In Nigeria that period in my eyes as a brand new teen secondary school student, that mid '80s were my ancient in reminiscent. On gotten admission,I had came for registration with my Dad. The staff and administrative block was a stand alone building in form of rectangular mold that assaulted us first. It's demarcated inside int...

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Square One

Philip Ebuluofor

Funny and fearful tales is what you hear 24 hours each day in some quarters here these days. Can't just understand why some people's lives are full of stories while some others are as dry as the Sahara desert. Not as if the people of milfe autonomous community are enjoying the type of story their lives are full of and from the look of things, those suffering from dryness are thanking heaven and asking for the drought to be permanent. That is what some people in the town of milfe can't understand. "Why me and why us" is the only thing droppi...

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Depositors

Philip Ebuluofor

The uproar was still high and rising every second. Many still cowering from the scene, the women folks seem to by their nature born for this kind of disorganization. There is no doubt that they are born amplifiers. Good actresses from the womb, but this time around, they were not acting out and their antics are not even enough in comparison with what lays before everyone on that Onitsha T-junction that dull October morning.  About eight dead bodies lay askew in haphazard manners. One still hanging from the window of the mini bus he wa...

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More Than Strange

Philip Ebuluofor

They named the elementary school compound as the avenue. Why they chose the interior village, no one knows. One thing Anthony has found out is that humans seem not to know what they really want. Those dwelling in the rural areas ogle city life and those in cities ogle rural areas. Human nature had been asking questions discreetly to know the reason behind such without success. He pegged it to humanity sickness. What they have doesn't move them, what they don't have draws them like a magnate even though that is too inferior to what they have....

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Village Burials

Philip Ebuluofor

 The groaning came from my mother after answering a phone call. I don't know who put  through. The groaning was growing in numbers and seems to be coming in rapid forms that period as she answers. I was sitting on the dining room table scribbling nothing in particular. I was just as usual whiling away time hoping to fall into a writing groove before seriousness will take over.  That seriousness seems to be my whiling away time as a ritual that summons it in from where I don't know. If those in the know I have not stamped it ...

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Eightieth Birthday

Philip Ebuluofor

   He marched into the church he last saw its interior about twenty-something years ago alongside about fifteen others he knows none among them. The church in its iconic history had been standing at that same spot since that very day the colonial masters laid its foundation in the first decade of twentieth century. Of course it has undergone countless renovations but nothing much has changed. He was there for an anniversary of his mother-in-law celebrating her eightieth birthday and her kids, some of whom were priest and rev...

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Watermelon

Philip Ebuluofor

Before the tail end of the first decade of this century, I had a mighty problem with the law that took more than a decade out of my life. I was sent to one international prison not far from my base then and handed 15 years. Not a funny year out of one's life. But, you can always see terms like that through whether you believe you can or not. Whether you have that spirit needed to see it through or not, it will be provided to you by forces beyond your control to divert your attention from thinking too much about your sentence. So, while ins...

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Intense To Mild

Philip Ebuluofor

  The tippers were dumping red earth and the tiny stones on two sets of heaps that John and Charles couldn't stop observing. They have practically forgotten where they were going and lost themselves in the amazement before them. Smirking and outright giggling were their lots for the better part of an hour or so. Dried weather was on their mild outing that Friday morning. "Do they say it's the commissioner building a new house or his brother?" John asked, still giggling that even Charles found it hard to hear him well."As you hear...

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Overflowing Gratitude

Philip Ebuluofor

  Many things, uncountable of them that I still recall to be grateful for in this my life. I know there are many I don't recall anymore and many I don't even know happened to me.  I have been shocked twice by electricity that was supposedly acute enough to send me out of this planet. And I still recall the first being in my year five in primary school and the second coming last year. I don't know who I am but I think I am that type of humans their God gives special instructions to the angels guarding them.  "look here, i...

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Strange Occurrance

Philip Ebuluofor

 The adage goes something like this: Only two things can kill a man. If you survive alcohol and women, you live to old age. Almost all the parents in this land have said something like that to their sons as advice. Yet, people still die of one of the two or two of the two. Officer dauda doesn't play with anything beautiful on skirts. Despite being married with two sons and a daughter, he still refused to retire his waist from away games. On that beautiful sunny morning of June two years ago, he was on his daily beat with his partner off...

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Insinuations

Philip Ebuluofor

It's their way, it has always been the way of humans all over the world. It has no particular race or tribe as its core customer even though many believed it has some people as its ardent apostle than others.  Maybe it's true or maybe not, I don't know, and I don't care that much. I made it my headache to worry about anything that warrant worrying about to the extent of my adding it in prayers or losing night sleep over it my priority. This story isn't one of those. It's the issue of the guilty seeking for where to rest their case or ...

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