2018. I have just returned from lecture theatre. I feel worked up. Everything is messy. The bedroom is unkempt. Clothes thick with oil-like dirt glare and sprawl on the bed. Sharp stench perforate my nose. I haven’t washed utensils for two weeks now. I can’t tell how, but ugali has become my best serve, nowadays….
I ring her twice. I anticipate her picking it up. Somehow, I feel in my intestines that she would decline it or just pick the phone up and damn me to eternal condemnation. I swallow my fear and decide to wait. I pick my phone up and call for the third time. This time it…
I eye her twice in awe. By God, she is limpid with beauty. She has a facial del Angelo. Her eyes are shapely sullen and sparkle with colossal blue figments of light like sunshine on the ocean. They enthrall as stars and shimmer like moon in the night. She has a high cheekbone on her…
I blush at recalling such simple, stupid ideas. As foolish as they are, they are worth risking for and dying for. But death. I fear death. Everyone does. God knows that cemeteries are no peaceful places. Not at all! But death is peaceful. It keeps one away from life’s froth, injustices and mockery. Naturally, dead…
“You smell of a sheep sweat!” A rarely-built lady roar. Her harsh, wide set eyes, square, a heavy face, line and malevolently ugly glare at me. “You reek of an old rat!” She adds. She makes a face, moves her eyes – up and down like a pendulum and shakes her head. “Whose woman is…
Sunday. 2009. The man of God is relentlessly battling with the Devil. Saints are blabbering indecipherable words. Many ‘Amens’ are cutting the ‘Holy Spirit’ suffocated air. Some are walking. Others are standing. And others on knees. This or that saint is threatening the devil with Christ’s blood. Voices thin, thick, and hoarse are making the…
“Make Love to me, sweetheart. I want to feel you inside me,” she says her eyes lingering on my face. Today everything is sedate. Serenity wallow in the air as a young bird expect for a hyena which is busy breaking hymen of another. Their mating sounds make the night symphonious especially when their noises…