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Philip Ebuluofor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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Mighty Work

Philip Ebuluofor

He sat on the only chair in his room staring for the upteenth time at the mail he received thirty minutes ago in his phone. The work he thought is up there with the best has been rejected once again. The ninth this month and the month is still young. He eyed the ceiling for the hundredth time within thirty minutes, in fact, his eyes had automatically fixed on that ceiling non shifting since thirty minutes that he can describe all the regular and irregular lines on it so easily with eyes closed. The day is the 13th of the month and there are ...

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Insulting The King

Philip Ebuluofor

I heard it when most did. They had found the bull wandering around and treashing farms and crops in them.I went along with some of our  village young men to go and see things and these marauders for ourselves. The herdsmen or whatever popular cattle rearers from the northern part of the country are known as have done it again. This time it was that they wiped away the whole village in the neighboring community not far from ours, when they tried to prevent their free roaming bulls from damaging their farm products. When we got there i...

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Charging Cafe

Philip Ebuluofor

The light have been off now for about a week plus. Tony okolo has decided that he is not going to be the one again writing to any authority. It have become one too many on his part. "Let these maggots run their strength out" he murmured to himself when the light was finally restored and his, not among them. He knew that some touts controlling the city have found him an avenue to control the city and the psychology of the sound ones in it. But he is not going to grant them whatever motivation they are seeking for. His obligations to the sites...

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Throwing Off

Philip Ebuluofor

He sat in the corner of the computer house typing away, totally lost in his work. He had been coming to the same cafe to browse and do other paper works for weeks now without any success with those he had been communicating with. The work he has done for them, they kept rejecting saying it's not up to their standard. The problem is that they don't know what they want. Their instructions are confusing. He has amended all they said, but, in a few hours time, he will know what fault they will see again. There is always one with those groups. Th...

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Mr. Wythe

Philip Ebuluofor

   He had been at it for years but the thing is that he gives over respect to most things of this life. Maybe, you can best describe him as a ritualistic in nature. He will set the long and short stool in a format that they will form one longer one, then placed the rubber higher chair in front of him, placed a makeshift carton that serves as table surface and proceeds to wipe all clean with a clean rag before embarking on yet another placement ritual. The back balcony of their family house with the attendant noise that surroun...

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Prophetess Eliza

Philip Ebuluofor

 He found the house around 11:45 am. The afternoon sun has just started to emerge. But the woman isn't around according to the two women he saw in the compound there he took to be the prophetess helpers. They had asked him to tell them his problems but he wasn't in a hurry mood or about to allowed the apprentice to do his dignosis for him. He have seen a lot of such "Tell us your problems" kind since he got married five years ago and had been rolling around in every general and private cure houses without success. He is tired of pr...

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Harvest Season

Philip Ebuluofor

When I first went to Bamako, I didn't know the culture there differs greatly from what we have in Nigeria during the hot season. I was there not only for business reasons but to see this country players like Tigana came from. they never wanted to behave themselves for whatever reason they're killing themselves for were.  It is actually my friend that deals in sugar and sugar products that put the idea of Bamako in my head. I mean, people I am better off by far are all getting Chinese and Dubai visas, why not me. But my friend has a bet...

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Two Cities Tale

Philip Ebuluofor

That was how I had viewed my village this past weekend. I went back there for village matters. I am not sure if it even qualified to be called that name anymore in the sense that colonial masters left those words to us a long time ago. Do the math yourself and see things from your own perspective. Villages in the sense the British left it for us isn't what we are witnessing here this century, things have inverted, inverted and still inverting. Checkout what I have been able to see without straining my eyes, or any part of me. They were all ...

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DIY

Philip Ebuluofor

He hear about it often but never really as it's with him always put it to work. Do it yourself is a jingle that rings out in his life almost every day. It's never in his character to do certain things he believes it's certain kind of people work to do. He guess that it's the over indulging upbring he passed through in the hands of his parents. If a mop breaks, it will never occur to him to look at it well and see how he can repair it, if any electronics stop working, it will not cross his mind to take a proper look at it and see what he can ...

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BK-s13

Philip Ebuluofor

My neighbor, Mad Anderson, they call him, but I am not sure that is even his real name.  Where he came from, I don't know but he is one of those tinker workers that is turning those sectors into serious business. Those guys can't give your ears an iota of peace even on sundays. They hammer, chisel, scrape, file, wash and then paint to bring to life a deadpan of any shape. He is a dreamer, not only that he dreams walks at times,  he makes time to sit and dream up, plot every kind of negativity that never enters into any ordinary man...

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The gods And The Ancestors

Philip Ebuluofor

  They had been at this farm now for three days nonstop and yet, it seems to Mr. Okoye that they had been wasting their time, no sign  that progress is being made. He had been trying to wall the farm to protect it from animals and human animals that always find their way into others property uninvited. The wrapper around his waist had been dancing to the tune of the wind that was visibly present that wednesday morning in April 1943.  The farm happened to be near a part way that leads to other farms and other's houses henc...

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Abandoned Camera

Philip Ebuluofor

              He was twelve when her mother's friend shifted him to the city from the village to give his mother a breathing space. Whatever drew him to the craft work was somewhere in the village not in the city. The old lady he was handed over to live with started noticing his inclinations in handiwork not long after coming to her house. He will touch this and that to the annoyance of the lady's household. He surely damages more than he repairs and his attention is neve...

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Glorified Road

Philip Ebuluofor

      I  am not asking how it is, for I have been part of the system for years. From my youth, if a five-year-old kid is rated as a youth till I left my parents to live with a Reverend gentleman, it always had been getting up early to fetch water, then it will be farm time. That school is on break for students to rest waiting on a resuming date, is not for village students and pupils. Once it's farming time, you are automatically on the farming list. So everyday life of Mr. Mike Igwe, his four kids and...

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Black Mass

Philip Ebuluofor

  Sheddy they call him. A local gin dealer with a shop that entertains more than a hundred of his kind each morning and evening. If you don't know how humans of the same standing attract themselves as magnets do to nails, go to the Sheddy''s shop every evening and learn. Around 31 and had this little psychological problem from childhood that stayed with him to adulthood. No one even came for him for apprenticeship. He will go to the illegal local brewers and fill about two mighty white gallons with that illegally improper refined g...

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Middle Ground

Philip Ebuluofor

It was a tense situation from federal to local government level in the whole country.I don't think many are still surprised by the incidents  that each election year ushers in. Many that are adults in the middle '90s knew that this era and naughty incidents they come with each four year election us due is kindergarten case compared to tertiary cases of election days of the '90s. That period, it was kidnappings and killings of opponents and ceasing of the current leaders and holding them hostage in their own bedrooms and toilets for days...

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