Bisi walked gingerly into her bedroom. Ever since her mother died, she found it difficult to sleep at night. She was afraid that whatever killed her mother was waiting for her in the darkness. When she told her father her fears, he discarded it as mere childish imagination. And, he made it a point to send her on errands to the darkest places in the house. He even removed the light bulb in her room to make sure she slept in darkness. All in a bid to erase her fear of the dark, but instead her fear grew. Her father was hiding something, she didn’t know what, but she knew it was related to her mother’s death.

He never said much about her mother, he wouldn’t even tell her how she died. She still remembered the devastating look on his face the day he told her the tragic news and withdrew her from boarding school. That was the only emotion she had gotten from her father on the issue.

Ever since then, before she went to sleep and even in her sleep, she...
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Olabisi Oyenuga could feel eyes watching her as she walked along the lonely tarred road that led to her house. Something or someone was following her, she could feel it. But, there were no shadows except her own. The air was stiff and so were the bushes alongside the road, so how come she saw no one when she looked back? The black scar in the shape of a star on her left wrist throbbed painfully. She did not remember how she got the scar; she knew she was not born with it and that she had gotten it around the time her mother died, aside that, she could not remember anything else about the scar. The weird part of it was that no one else could see it, not even her father whom she lived with before he died. And he’d called her crazy when she asked him about it....
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