Writuer

  The story. The atmosphere was heavy, that of apprehension and uncertainty as Iquo stared at the open space leading into the compound. It was around 10:33pm that evening.  A time in Ikot Ekim community when every household had put off their lamps and retired to bed. The nocturnal sound of night creatures made the night even more looming and intense.  Nsek has never stayed out so late no matter how fierce any argument with his wife was. In their 24 years of marriage, no matter the nature of the fights Iquo has had with her husband he will always come back home to rest in his hut.  As time ticked away, she stared at the open compound, struggling to fend off the call of nature with the hope her husband would appear at the far end of the compound.  Using her hand to support her chin, she wondered how things could change so fast. Her husband Nsek was no longer the man she married. He picked fights at every little argument and would end the night with curses, accusin...

 Dark, it looms. Crack, my heart ache.  Drown, I seemed,   In tears I swim.   Yearns, in despair,  for help from love  Matters of the heart  Immune to no heart   Like a candle wax it melt,  Hurts that it fades.   Beaut they say  None ever say  It hurts More than it revel.  Dripping tears everlasting? Nah!   For the moment, Yes!   Get hurt  Never get stuck   Down the lane,  Path to heart  Love gets up   Staggering it felt  With momentum it shines  On a heart it cares Wanning heart,  But a loving heart,  Beats, all for ♡   ~ Patrick Ekong & Writuer ©️

 A short story..  Did anyone tell you that finding a daughter or son of Adam for that "better and for worst" is easy when you finally made up your mind to stick one place?  Well! I thought so too when I was the CHIEF play boy.  I have always thought that the day you made your mind to settle down, that you won't be short of options at your disposal as the master of the game.   Truth is that finding a wo/man to settle down with is more difficult than when you were flirting the streets, scavenging for what to satisfy the lust for the forbidden fruit.   Once you are ready, the fear of not falling into the wrong hands will make you look at every wo/man in 3D.  Let me drag you on a bit.Here is my story...   I was 21 when i got my first job.  As at that age, plans of settling down never crossed my mind let alone to think of having such a conversation with the many girls that came my way then.  I had graduated early from school an...

 The story...   I was only 12 when my parents betrothed me to Adamu, a man in his late thirties. It was a culture and also a norm that was practiced in my small remote village at the outskirt of Adawa, in the northern part of Nigeria, early child marriage.  Before my betrothal, I have seen some other young girls of my age being given up by their parents to older men for marriage. I was only waiting for when the shameless he goat will come for me. Fews days ago, I have eavedropped on my parents naming their price to a certain man before he could take me as a wife.   As a girl of my age, you wouldn't expect me to object my parents wishes and also an age long tradition of my kindred. Aside from this, I was too young to know exactly what it meant to be betrothed to a man who will eventually become your husband without your consent.  At the age of sixteen after my secondary education, the husband my parents married me to came for me. Not to defiled th...

 The story..  I woke up that morning, bent over for a short prayer to start the day.  Getting up, my eyes met with the table clock right beside my bed, time has already past 7:30am. I quickly reached my phone, call my laundry man to be sure my suit was ready.... It was Saturday, 14th October, another day for singles to abandoned singlehood to YES! I DO.  "Sure! You can come picked it up in about an hour, Sir.." was the reply I got from my laundry man over the phone. The shoes I ordered from Jumia was still in the shelf glittering and I didn't need anyone to tell me that MARRIAGE was actually God's ordained thing, after all I have been a BEST MAN to nearly half a dozen of my friends.   Though the repute and what constitute marriage has come under scrutiny and a trending topic of debate lately owing to increasing numbers of divorce, but it doesn't mean that what doesn't works for others may not work for you.  I took a cab to the laundry shop and withi...

Leo Messi DEBUT BUT MBAPA STOLE THE SHOW      It was a much anticipated debut that football fans across the globe waited eagerly for, since his shocking switched from FC Barcelona to PSG on August 10th, changing club for the first time in more than his three decades playing career.  Leo Messi turned out in a different football jersey other than Barca and the Argentina national team shirts 👕.  Everything look weird just like your first experience of rollercoster ride. You can't simple say what it was like.  From his first touch on the ball and that trademark run up the right flank of the pitch, Reims fans couldn't helped than shout "Messi, Messi".   What they usually see on television was live in front of them and it was certainly weird 😳.   The build up to the match between Reims and PSG - Paris Saint-Germain was overshadowed by Leo Messi debut that Gerad Piques had to bought Ligue-1 viewing rights in Spain for 2.2 million viewers wh...