Honest Illusions 17

Episode 17

RCF, Aluu...
Oprah couldn't believe the change that had come over Chris. For the past two weeks, he had been nothing but a gentleman to the hilt. No arguments, no show of jealousy and the most important, no demand for sex. As if that wasn't enough, she had managed to convince him to come for Tuesday service with her and to her surprise, he had.

Good As Gold

My House Hunt Wahala

My family had just moved into a decent two bedroom apartment in Ailegun, Ejigbo Lagos and was yet to settle in when we were mandated to move out again. We had just spent one month in the apartment when the agent came to break the sad news to my father that the landlord in America didn't want any tenant in our apartment.

SOLILOQUIES: Diary of an assistant girlfriend.

Hello diary, I'm Dora Andy and sure you're wondering at my brand of crazy to name myself an assistant girlfriend. I guess you will find out soon enough after you have come with me on the long journey through the first time I fell in love...

April 14th, 2012:

Whoever said 200 level would be easy should be shot. I can't believe the number of 7am classes we have for the week and the rigid nature of the lecturers too. Gosh, mid-way to the semester and I'm swamped with school work, God help me. I met my landlord's son today *swoons and blushes, lawd! he's so damn fine!

SOLILOQUIES: Straight outta Hades

You can call me Shade. Its not my name but its what I say now when anybody asks,which isn't often. I am invisible.

I have been wandering in this void for approximately 48 hours. That is more or less the time after I had been certified dead on arrival at the teaching hospital.

From this vantage point, I can be said to be seeing it all: the bereavement of kith and kin, friends, acquaintances, not to mention numerous sympathetic patients, the glee and joy of enemies and the apathetic reaction of the larger community to whom I am just another suicide statistic. Through it all I can hear the questions in their hearts for which an answer seems elusive: Why? Why did she do it? What could have forced a promising young doctor, wife and mother to take her own life?

SOLILOQUIES:Forbidden Pleasure

No it wasn't love at first sight. I wasn't flattered by his charm and interest in me. I tried to ignore him and turned down his relationship proposal countless times.

I wasn't having any of it - a destined for failure relationship shrouded in secrecy and guilt. A roving fire of passion and lust bound to leave everyone burned out. An abominable liaison - or so I thought.

But he had been relentless, plying me with gifts and acts of kindness, making me change my mind, making my cold broken heart start to beat again.

"No it can't be him!" Common sense had warned my heart. "Anybody else but him."