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http://penastory.com/2016/03/15/twenty-episode-9/ Excerpt From Episode 8 “Mom, send me Gift’s number, I need to call her about something right now.” Her heart was beating wildly in her chest as she waited and she was unable to control her shaking fingers when her text message tone beeped to alert her of the message. With shaky fingers, she opened the message and stared in disbelief at the exact same number. It was the same number. What was going on? What game was Gift playing? How much did she know and what had she meant by that YOU MIGHT BE NEXT? Read Episode 8, visit profile or www.penastory.com Maryam was quick, too quick to conclude that Gift was involved in Matthew’s death. The two sat on the bed with its rumpled sheets trying to think about the whole situation. Chioma felt like she was losing her mind. It was all confusing, really confusing. Someone was playing tricks on her and she couldn’t understand what was going on any more. Apart from the obvious question about Gift, Maryam had her own fears too. She was scared that she was getting drawn into the picture. Should she tell Chioma about the text she herself had gotten? She had received a text message reading “Two wrongs don’t make a right. Birds of a feather flock together and will probably die together. Leave your own nose on your face.” Sitting next to Chioma now, she didn’t think now was the right time to tell her about the text. Chioma was already disoriented and scared as things stood. Instead she found herself asking, “when are you going to tell me what Gift has against you?” “Did you have an affair with David?” Chioma fired back. The question hit Maryam hard. That wasn’t the sort of reply she had been expecting. She stood, her mouth opened in shock before she mustered all the feeling of indignation she could and stormed out of the room. She headed towards the bathroom and locked the door behind her, sitting on the floor. The coldness mirrored the coldness of her heart. How had Chioma found out? Were the tides turning against her? Had David said something he shouldn’t have? He couldn’t have, he stood to lose too much if Mrs. Ugochuwku knew of his infidelity. How then could Chioma have been able to place them together? Chioma didn’t go after her. She sat on the bed, her face devoid of expression. Maryam’s anger spoke volumes. Did Maryam really think she was blind to the looks she kept stealing at David while they were at the hospital? Did she think she had been oblivious to the hungry looks she gave him when she thought no one was watching? David would sleep with anything in pants so it was only natural he would have taken advantage of Maryam and her silly notions of love. The house was as silent as a cemetery, both girls in their different worlds. After what seemed like an eternity, Maryam finally unlocked the door and without looking at Chioma headed for the exit. “Call me when you’re ready to talk,” Chioma yelled at her retreating back. Maryam made no reply as she yanked open the door and almost bumped into Mrs. Ugochukwu. “Are you leaving already?” “Yes ma, I have to get home before by my parents begin to get worried,” she averted her gaze and hurried past Mrs. Ugochukwu. David was lying on a couch in the living room. She paused, unsure whether to go to him but she made up her mind and walked quickly towards the door, making her escape from the house that suddenly seemed to be choking the life out of her. *** Maryam was the type of girl that always had a cheerful smile on her face but as she walked to now, her countenance was grave. All through the journey home, her mind kept racing in fear. How much did Chioma know? Was David sleeping with this Gift as well? Her phone rang several times but she paid no mind to it each time she saw Chioma’s name appear on the screen. When she got home, she headed straight for her room where she swallowed two pain killers and fell into a troubled sleep. It wasn’t until around 2:00pm that she woke up and she saw forty-five missed calls from Chioma. Then the text, from the same number that was unidentifiable. Her eyes scanned the words in fear, “The devil has been unleashed, be careful little cat. Curiosity always kill your kind.” She dropped the phone on her bed and held her head in her hands. The aspirin she had swallowed suddenly seemed not to have worked as she felt a throbbing in her head again and she sighed as shame welled up inside her. *** Maryam finally decided to return Chioma’s call after a second round of restless sleep and was already deciding to give up when she got no response when David’s voice suddenly came from the other end of the line. “Hey babes” “Saw your missed calls, thought…” Maryam’s voice trailed off as she realised it wasn’t Chioma at the other end? “It’s David, Chioma is with her mom” “Why are you with her phone? What have you done to them you bastard? I swear if you have hurt them, I will make sure that…” “Relax. They simply went out to get some things. What can a recuperating man like me do? Besides I mean them no harm. I miss you.” His voice was calm and held a hint of mockery in it. “Save your missing for yourself. Chioma knows about us! You bloody pig! You tried raping her for cripes sake. Have you gone mad? This wasn’t part of the plan.” “Relax, we are still in line. I got this trust me.” “Does that include my getting threatened as well? What the hell is going on David?” “Threatened?” There was confusion in his voice. “Who threatened you? What are you talking about?” “Someone has been texting Chioma and it was Gift. What games are you playing David? What the freaking hell is going on. This wasn’t what I signed up for.” “Shit. I got to go. They are back, I will explain later. But I need you to transfer me some money. I will be needing new clothes. I will explain everything later. I love you.” The line went dead before Maryam could say anything and she dropped the phone more confused than ever. David didn’t know about who was texting her? For the first time, she wondered what she had gotten herself into as she stared at her own reflection in the mirror and felt the beginning of a headache again. Source : PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/14/now-that-you-are-here-episode-two-a-tale-of-deception-betrayal-and-murder/ Excerpt From Episode 1: He stared at her sheepishly, the guilt written all over his face, his hands paused with a spoon of rice and dodo in his hands. He dropped the spoon and bowed his head slightly. There was silence in the room. “Why Gbade? Why?” He reached for her but she moved back before dropping the phone and headed towards the door. “Dammy…wait. Hear me out. Please!” Read Episode 1: Check profile or www.penastory.com He reached her just as she was about to open the door. He grabbed her and enveloped her in a hug from behind. She allowed him, sagging into him weakly, the fight already drained out of her even before it started. “I am sorry Dammy, really sorry.” His voice came in a hoarse whisper ear even as she fought the tears that was already pooled in her eyes. The past two years had seen her warding off different men; the attractive, the ugly, the rich, even the damn poor who wanted her to do surulere with them. Her entirety had been for him and it hurt her badly to realise that they had apparently not been on the same page. “How long has this been going on? Are there others I should know about? ” Her voice was calm, stronger than she felt. She disengaged herself from his embrace and turned to face him. She swept her unruly hair from her face and stared at him, the tears hanging there, like a dark cloud threatening to spill its content. “I tried Dammy, I really did. I held on for so long, a whole year I had control of myself. Then one morning it was just as if something took over me,” his voice was subdued, defeated and she felt a morbid sense of pleasure knowing he was feeling a bit of pain too. “It was about a year after I got to America, Mirabel, that is her name wouldn’t take no for an answer. My body was in cohort with her and before I knew it, Mirabel happened. She has been the only one. I swear she means nothing to me. You are the one I love, when I think of my future, I see it with you not with her. Please Dammy I know I have messed up but don’t let us destroy what we have. I love you. You are my life, please!” *** She sat on the couch with her legs tucked under her, pretending to read the book she was holding while Whitney Houston’s “Where Do Broken Hearts Go?” played slowly from her headset. She had gone through about ninety-four love songs on her phone already. Each artiste seeming to capture a new area of her pain. She felt as depressed and moody as the artistes must have been when they wrote their songs. She looked up as Gbade walked into the room in nothing but his briefs. He looks so handsome, the devil. She shook her head as if to dispel the thought and tried to force her concentration back on her novel. Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” was playing now. She sneaked a look at him again from under her lids and saw that he was watching her as well. Quickly, she lowered her eyes and adjusted uncomfortably on the couch, unfolding her legs. Her breath caught in her throat when she sensed rather than saw him approach. The coolness of his hand rested on her bare thighs made her cringe. She was wearing a bum short with an oversized shirt which left most of her lower body exposed. Removing her reading glasses, she stared at him questioningly? He was squatting in front of her with a puppy look on his face. She could tell the past two days had been rough for him as well. “Is this the end Dammy? You have barely talked to me since I arrived. I can’t continue to see you like this and know I am the cause of your pain, if you want…” emotions made him choke on his words and she felt a twinge of pity. Gbade wasn’t the type that talked much, she was the talkative. He was too shy and reserved. She knew it must be very hard for him, trying to express himself with so much emotion. He looked so adorable, just staring at her with that look of devotion on his face. Without another word, she pulled him up and kissed him fully on the lips. “It’s alright baby, we will be alright as long as you let her go and come back to me where you belong.” He hugged her and whispered “I belong only to you Tangy baby.” She smiled then, remembering his pet name for her. *** Dammy was panting as if she had just run three miles none stop as she thrashed under Gbade. His tongue was flicking in and out of her ear, two years and he still knew the right places to touch her. He had not forgotten that her ear was one of her erogenous spots. She whimpered as his hands fondled her left breasts gently. His assault on her ear didn’t stop as he expertly unbuttoned the shirt she was wearing. It had been so long, a long time of waiting and dreaming for his touch. She was a woman in heat and she arched her back in ecstasy when his finger flicked over her nipple. He paused for a second and grinned at her. Unabashed, she flashed a smile at him, “It’s been two years damn it! Get along with your duty soldier.” He didn’t need another urging, he bent his head and his mouth found her exposed breasts, his tongue sucking on her already hard nipple. She moaned in pleasure, it felt so good to finally have another human touch her the way she liked to be touched. The wait had been worth it, she couldn’t imagine this pleasure with any other. She reached out and grabbed his shoulder tracing the contours of his manliness. Her fingers ran down his spine and moved to his chest, she moved her hands slowly down till her hand felt the pubic hair disappearing into his briefs. He moaned against her breasts, exhaling heat that seemed turned her on even more. She couldn’t hold back anymore, she delved inside with her hands and touched the heated rod pulsing down there. The rock hard rigidness excited her and she closed her hands around it, feeling its might. Just then, a phone shrilled as if angrily shattering the intimacy of the moment. She opened her eyes with a frown, it was Gbade’s phone. Her eyes went to the wall clock, who could be calling him at 11:34pm? He gave her a quick kiss on the lips before rolling away to the dresser to pick up the phone. Mumbling incoherently, she stood up and leaned over his shoulders to nibble on his ear. She paused as she caught a glimpse of the caller id just as he pressed the green button. Mirabel! Source : PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/12/how-i-made-my-first-million-kunbi-black/#more-2021 It was only like yesterday; a day I would never forget. For as long as I live, it remains that one day I will continue to boast about. I will look my kids and grand-kids in the eyes with my chest out, shoulders held high and eyes glowing with pride to tell them about how daddy/grandpa did it. The day was moving like every normal day until I received the text from them. The company. The same company they said would never consider my proposition and grant me the funds needed for execution of my lofty projects. As much as I would have loved to mention the name of the brand, I can’t because it was a part of the undertaking I signed. But I assure you, it is a household brand known in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria. The marketing manager requested for my presence at their office by 8:00am the next day, exactly five days after I made my presentation. I didn’t know how to react, she was vague and wouldn’t disclose anything over the phone. I couldn’t sleep of course. My mind kept racing back and forth, searching for nothing in particular. I suppose it was anxiety or maybe my subconscious simply in awe of the good that was ahead. The night seemed longer than usual and by 4:00am, I was already dressed up, spraying all the remaining drops of liquid from my roomie’s perfume bottle. The mumu boy actually caught me in the act and yabbed me. If only he knew what I was about to receive in the next few hours. Mtschew! Not like I had any idea myself but at the very least, a little contribution to the hustle wouldn’t have hurt. By 6:00am, I left my apartment somewhere in the Bariga. Now you couldn’t have been expecting someone that has to steal his roomie’s perfume to have cab money so danfo loh sure ju. When I got to the Island, I alighted from the Keke Napep, a few buildings from the office, bought pure water to clean my shoe and trouser. A quick rinse of my face and I went about my way, walking majestically into the office building. Packaging is essential in this our business, you know people detect a poor man? They usually walk like they own the whole of Lagos and know all the Ogas at the top but in reality nothing dey. That was me this particular day, packaging my package. Who knew that in about one hour, God was going to hear my prayers and look down upon me with mercy? Who knew my yeye roommate was going to beg me to buy him new perfume? Who knew it was bye-bye to Garri soaking and welcome to Champagne popping? Who knew my palasa torchlight phone was gonna change to a hot touchscreen phone? Who knew finally my creativity and dedication to the spirit of hustle had finally bailed me out of poverty for life? I walked into the board room with Mrs. Dee and other top officials of the company and they broke the news to me of how much they believe in my brand and felt we could do something big together as partners and their willingness to support me all the way. They were going to start with a sum of 2.5 million naira. I didn’t know when tears started rolling down my cheeks as I broke down. Suddenly I began to hear someone calling out my name from afar. The voice sounded faintly familiar, it sounded like I knew the owner. I however seemed to be the only one hearing the voice as the congratulations kept on going round. The voice got louder and Closer before I felt a hand hit me. The calling of my name sounded very near, calling my name like one who needed my attention urgently. Alas when I turned, I found myself awake and in Bariga and not on the Island. Mrs. Dee and the others were not staring at me and congratulating me but rather it was my roomie staring at me and congratulating me on the arrival of the garri, sugar and groundnut we planned to have for dinner. Jesus!!! I had actually been dreaming. Source : PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/11/imperfections/ We are unstable like the dark moon A time for Her fullness in all its aura A time for Her decreased being Another time for her unseen spirit Not like the searing blatant sun All times for its rigid perfection ordinary shape of round fire Ugly in its ways of perfect power Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/11/tricked-the-lesbian-party-experience-part-2/ Excerpt from Part 1 One of the security men opened the gate for us after speaking to whoever it was that Gbade dialed on his cellphone to speak to and soon we were driving into a big compound. That was when my adventures for the night began as Gbade parked the car and with a gleeful expression on his face said, “welcome to a lesbian party boyfriend, better behave, I hear say these girls can fight more than boys. We are two gay boys attending so follow my lead and we would get access to some free boobs and toy with some good pussy so long as they think we are queer…” To read Part 1, visit profile or www.penastory.com The ‘man’ that opened the gate had a funny walk to his steps and it was not until I got down from the car that realized I was staring at a girl dressed like a man. Boy, was I speechless; she had on a pair of baggy jeans and an oversized T-shirt with a red bandanna tied over her low-cut hair. What was this that I had gotten myself into? I wasn’t even sure if I was looking at a male or female. The surprise must have been so evident on my face because she looked at me and in what I cannot even begin to call a feminine voice, she growled, “You miss road? Abi wetin you dey look so?” The mean look on her face made me recoil as if I she had physically struck me and I found myself stumbling into Gbade who was just coming to meet up with me after parking the car. His hands went around me and he held my waist, smiling sweetly at the creature in front of me, “I am sorry on behalf of my bae’s. You know all this omo mummy, he has never been to a party before. How you dey?” I watched with more controlled emotions as Gbade and the girl shook hands and she offered him a cigarette which he declined inclining his head towards me. “He doesn’t really like me smoking.” That much was true and with a playful punch on the girl’s shouldr, he took my hand and led me away. Gbade took me to a corner of the compound and between clenched teeth, hissed at me. “I have told you, we are at a lesbian’s party, stop acting so fucking retarded. Just go along with their game. They won’t mind you touching them anyhow you want when the dancing begins since they believe you are not excited by any of their body parts. Just follow my lead, there are some cool chicks here, that one you saw is just one of the obvious one.” “Have you been to one of these before?” I asked, staring daggers at him. “Listen up Femi, I got the info from one of my paddies and I don’t care if these girls dig each other all I care about is that there is going to be loads of boobs and booties swinging around the place. We are allowed in because they think we are gay so you better start acting the part if you don’t want to get your head smashed. We are here already, relax and have some damn fun, just don’t come off as too straight.” I nodded meekly and took another look at the girl who was now bouncing her way back into the house where I could hear the sound of music blasting. From behind, it was hard to tell if she was a guy or girl and the hint of muscles only gave her the look of one who could hold her own in a fight with a guy. Gbade took my hand like a man would hold his wife and together we trailed after her into the house. The smell of alcohol and smoke hit my nostrils and for a minute, I stood rooted to the spot as I took in the party scene. The room was majorly occupied with girls, I quickly discerned that they didn’t all look like the other one that had come to open the gate as there were quite some normal girls prancing around in high heels and looking all girly. It only looked like the ones that were not so feminine were simply the men in their sexuality and for some weird reason I wondered what a punch from one of them would feel like. I didn’t need to be told that Gbade was here for the everyday girls who looked quite stunning I must confess. In their tight leggings, mini-skirts, revealing tops and sheer outfits, they could easily pass for models and I wondered how these girls who could easily fit into any guy’s wet dreams could be playing on the same team. As my eyes began to get accustomed to the neon lights of the room, I began to pick out the random guys in the room, they were apparently the gay guys Gbade had said we would be imitating and I tried not to let my disgust show as we passed a couple tonguing on a chair while a girl shook her ass in rhythm to Beyonce and Shakira’s Beautiful Liar. How could they be oblivious to all of that goodness and be so into themselves I wondered and found myself gripping Gbade’s hands tighter. Just then someone announced that there was going to be a dance performance and I watched as two girls came into the center of the room. I stared in stupefaction as they began to grind against one another and shook their boobs and asses to the leering audience. Just then a guy dressed in what looked like a fishnet and tank top sashayed to join them and before I knew it, Gbade was leaving me to join them as well. I didn’t know whether to be amused or horrified as I saw Gbade rock the guy the same way he would rock a girl before he moved on to one of the girls and began drumming on her ass. The audience went mad with excitement as they cheered him on and she spread her legs apart as she began to shake it to Timaya’s “Bum Bum” Gbade’s hand following every shake of her ass. “Your boyfriend is a good dancer though,” the girl we had sat beside said to me with glee on her face and I was about to say he was not my boyfriend when I quickly bit down on my tongue to prevent myself from saying something stupid. “Like I know right, leaving me here all alone.” “Aww,” she purred in a sexy drawl and poured me a drink from the glass in front of her. I took the drink from her hand and just as she handed it to me, I moved forward so that some of its content spilled on her boobs. “I am so sorry,” I said, brushing her boobs in an apologetic manner while she laughed and said it didn’t matter. This wasn’t such a bad idea after all, I thought to myself as my hands went back and forth on her boobs in my feigned attempt to dry her, “Thanks.” She stood up and indicated I stand which I did with confusion on my face. Had she caught me already? Had I been so obvious? She slowly sank into me even as I heard the song change to a slow love song. It was obvious she was half drunk and she began to dance against me, her body fully pressed against mine. I couldn’t believe my luck. Here I was with this girl having her breasts pressed firmly against my chest with her arms around me without a concern in the world. Slowly my hands went around her as I began to move with her. Just then, one of the gay guys walked past us and as he made to pass in a whiff of smoke, he tapped my butt. My first reaction was to slap him in disgust but instead I found myself biting my tongue yet again. He must have liked what he touched because he paused and leaned into me, whispering in my ear, “Seems your boyfriend abandoned you, why not let daddy take care of you?” I pushed him aside and barked, “get off you disgusting piece of shit!” My voice a little too loud and some heads turned to look at us. My dancing girl companion only laughed in her half-drunk state and disentangled herself from me, sinking back into the chair she had just vacated to take another swig of her alcohol. I plopped down into the seat beside her just as a pretty fair complexioned girl walked up to us and beckoned I come with her. “That guy there is your boyfriend right?” She asked tilting her head in the direction of Gbade who was dancing his life away. I didn’t know what to say, was I to say yes or was I to say no? Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/11/poetry-play-19/ Samuel Oluwatobi Olatunji and The Anonymous Cherif C: Every day is a battle to be won S: So fight, stretch your soul towards the sun C: Make naked your artillery, roll out the canons S: And stand strong, don’t offer your eyes to life’s onions C: Or your skin to the scars of mortal existence S: Be empty of enmity, and earn estimable essence C: Let the tide of positivity sweep you off your feet S: And let success be the only thing you repeat C: What’s your motto? No surrender, no defeat! S: Let this poetic motivation be your meat C: Chew on it like a savage beast S: But ensure you gather your people too to join in the feast C: Cos it’s a battle hard, not for the weakest of fists S: Nor for men with withered wrists C: Be prepared, prepared to be met with fogs and silver mist S: Prepare too for the chilling challenges on life’s list C: Set forth your armoury against the slings and arrows S: And against antagonists attacking in rows C: To shield your chest against their deathly blows S: And against their thrashing throws C: But remember, when victory is about to be lost S: Get backup before you are cast on the defeated’s dust C: It comes at a high price, sky-high is the cost S: Remember, when all isn’t won, all may lost C: All or nothing, never settle for less S: Only then will you understand how to be bless NB: Poetry Play, a product of Artilogue in partnership with PenAStory, is a game in form of poetic dialogue for every poet on BBM. It is a game of two poets: one drops a line or more, and the other replies, flowing along until one of them gives up, or the poem gets too long. Every poem formed from this game will be published here (penastory.com) every Friday and Saturday. So poets, are you ready to play? If yes, contact Samuel via BBM: 7f5210ec
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/10/silence-the-scar-from-my-wound-mojeed-akinmade/ A breath away from Victory So I hoped it’ll be Expectant of the news that’ll turn things around Hopes soared higher above the eagles flight Faith in its entirety was my reality Like a shock wave it hit me Quietly walked away from the clique Dropping the paper that altered my mood Eyes became moist, d tears wouldn’t flow Like a balloon without air Faith depleted immediately As I pondered in silence Where has all the efforts and believe in the supreme being gone? The world around was shut down My angelic smile turned into a frown Insomnia gradually strolled in Taste buds insensitive, food Cravings deteriorated Sorrows speak loud without a tongue Soul bleeds profusely without a heart Wound heals not without a scar SILENCE cometh unto me SILENCE the scar from my wound, Covered but not healed Making me sing a song that’s not mine With groans and moans I produced the notes If I ever go quiet on hope and faith then It’s SILENCE the scar from my wound… Source:PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/10/a-strangers-youth/ He had the gait of a child, a happy one. It was apparent that he had never had to face any of life’s many troubles. Zoe looked at him from her work station and tried to figure how old the new boy could be. “Eighteen, maybe nineteen,” she thought to herself “twenty-one at most” she added, taking another look at him and noticing he had a little mustache. She shrugged, “They grow fast these days,” she muttered to herself as she dismissed his being twenty-one from her head. “He could not be that old. Looks fresh out of high school or first year in college so eighteen or nineteen it should be.” He was roaring the lyrics of Justin Beiber’s “Love Yourself” along with his phone. He was loud and carefree and did not look like he gave two cents that he was at work or in public. “He sings like he is in his shower and dances like no one is watching. He has to be nineteen.” She said again, this time a little bit louder as if she was talking to somebody and not her computer screen which was her only companion. She envied him. It was a warehouse job; boring. She did it because she needed the money to survive not that she relished the eight hours she had to spend in what she had now come to refer to as a hell hole. She envied the attitude with which he went about his work, This “I might as well mix pleasure and business, get as much done as possible while listening to my favorite songs. I will pretend I am Justin in one of his music videos and I do not care who laugh” attitude. The mindset would probably make him never see the warehouse as the hell house that it was. She sighed and looked up from her computer screen as Emeka began singing Soldier Boy and Nicki Minaj’s “Yas Bitch” all the while bumping his head invigoratingly and moving energetically. Zoe looked at him wistfully as he mimed the lyrics and made video impressions. He walked past her and flashed her a smile as he walked down to end of the line, scanned the items he was about to pack and danced for a second before grabbing another label. “He is actually working and having fun,” she thought to herself and she realised the wanted that. A part of her wanted to join him in the music video, become Nicki Minaj and rap alongside to his Solider Boy A part of her wished he was not that young and free but she knew that was never going to happen. She was forty two, old and saddled, imprisoned in decorum, strangled by responsibility and caged by perception. Not too long ago, she had been him in a different life. Cheerleader for the Basketball team in high school, won the Oregon State Cheerleading Championship, lost in the quarter finals of Nationals. At senior year homecoming party, stripped in front of a crowd after five shots of tequila, made out with a boy right there and there, followed him home that night. Young, stupid, and free but now she was this woman clicking away at her computer, recording inventories and envying a stranger’s youth. Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/10/advice-me-i-am-in-an-abusive-relationship-and-she-calls-me-weak/ I am tired of my relationship because I have this girlfriend that really has a sharp mouth, she is always quick to throw insults at me in an argument and hide under her being a woman so she is allowed to run her mouth. Once we have any disagreement, she just begins to rain abuses on me and if I do so much as make any response to her, she believes that I am a weak man. Now I believe we live in the 21st century and women don’t live under the rocks of “I am a woman,” any more. Am I really a weak man for standing up to her or what do you think I should do? I once told her that all genders are equal and if she thinks she can get away with always running her mouth, she won’t with me. Her insults are quite demoralizing and not good for my state of mind but when we are not at loggerheads, she always seem to be the perfect woman. How does one deal with an abusive woman? Please let us be mature and polite in our responses, these are humans just like us asking us for our advice, you can also help more by checking profile or visiting the relationship segment on www.penastory.com Source:PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/09/the-pressure-of-getting-married-fayte/ At some point, we all come to that age where every young man around you is a suspect. This is the time of your life where you feel like escaping to an unknown place due to pressure from family, church, friends, enemies and even yourself. I call the last, internal pressure. Come to think of it; apart from bearing children, why do people really disturb about getting married? They want to see your wedding, they want to eat rice, your family likes the feel of wedding ceremonies, the busyness, and the prestige and for lasties like me, the pride of ‘my last born is married.’ Ok! Fine, it makes us all excited but when people pressure others, doesn’t it make them take rash decisions? Don’t we care about the marriage itself? Are all the unnecessary deadlines really worth it? Can’t we see the products of our pressure in previous years and make a change? Things are not getting any better, people can’t stay committed to even a job or church not to talk of marriage? Personally, I’m scared. YES! I am not ashamed to say it. This fear didn’t fly into me. It came as a result of what I see happening around me. I have seen, heard, discovered, uncovered the way some married people act and I am tempted to ask, ‘WHY DID YOU TWO GET MARRIED?’ There is no friendship, nothing to envy/emulate, a lot of coldness and these same people ginger you to get married. I feel the pressure too, especially in these times without a job but this doesn’t cause me to lose sight of how serious marriage is. Talks here and there about marrying early and biological clocks but I have come to understand that God doesn’t function with biological clocks. This is evident in the fact that young girls could marry without a child for years while matured ladies marry and get done with child birth. My mates are getting married in big ways. Cool! It is like I should screen on the basis of the size of wedding you can give me. But, is that all there is to it? It’s beautiful to having ecstatic memories but did I have the future in mind? What if God decides to wrap my gold in newspaper and Satan wraps a can of worms in a colored gift box? Will I be insensitive enough to throw away gold simply because I need to show people the beautiful casing while I go home to ask for special grace to deal with the worms? Or will I obey and trust God enough to happily accept His gift knowing that nobody could give me any better? My husband is mine, not the world. I should be able to select based on my preferences than what every other person prefers because at the end of the day, I will be the one to suffer or enjoy it. I believe in friendships first before any other kind of ship sails by. So nobody should pop up from nowhere to ask for a relationship. Even if na message you come so, oga, you go follow some due process. Well, deep within, I believe God is working in me. There is a lot to be sorted out as far as I am concerned. I cannot stop the pressure from coming as the days go by, I can control the outcome/response/reaction that I exhibit towards the pressure cookers. I choose not to let the pressure get to me. I choose not to let the pressure affect my judgment. I choose not to be moody. I choose to be happy for others when their time comes knowing that if my neighbor is blessed, it means God is my neighborhood. I choose to wait and be chaste-spirit, soul and body. I choose God. #Godoverall# Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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Exceprt From Episode 7: She was out of the ward when her phone beeped and she flipped open the phone to read the text message. The blood drained out of her face as she read, ‘Secrets are meant to be kept Chi, if you don’t keep mine, I won’t keep yours. It is better you keep your mouth shut or YOU MIGHT BE NEXT…” To read episode 7, visit profile or www.penastory.com “Do you think I should call the number,” Chioma asked Maryam whom she had called immediately she got back to the house. They were sitting in Chioma’s bedroom. When Maryam arrived after sensing the urgency in Chioma’s voice, she too had gone through the horrified reactions of Chioma when she read the text. Maryam’s face was confused as she said, “I think this is a matter for the police, we really need to inform them of what is going on.” Chioma turned around sharply from the wall she had been staring at blindly and looked at Maryam. It was like she was seeing Maryam for the first time and her mention of the police an indication that she had lost her mind. Chioma laughed mirthlessly, “The police? You have been watching too many Hollywood movies. How do I explain that I killed and buried a man that miraculously found his way back to life and ended up in a hospital? ” “He tried to rape you!” “This is Nigeria, he tried to rape me but somehow I managed to bury him, have you thought of that? Who would believe me?” “That is the hard part, have you tried talking to David himself? To get information on how he got to the hospital.” “Do you try to kill a man and then ask him how he survived?” there was frustrated sarcasm in Chioma’s voice as she continued, “besides, mother has not left his side since she got back from Abuja. Her precious David! I never got a chance to really talk to him, he was pretty shaken by the news of Matthew’s death. What I do know however is that the police is out of the option, we cannot consider the police.” “Give me the phone, let’s see who will pick if we call the number.” Maryam said and stretched out her hand to collect Chioma’s phone. They both held their breaths as the phone rang but nobody picked the call. “Maybe we shouldn’t,” there was fear in Chioma’s voice but Maryam ignored her and kept dialling the number. On the sixth try, a female’s voice came on the line. “Hello,” “Hell…hello. Hello,” Maryam stammered. Even though she had been dialing the number, after the third try she hadn’t really expected anybody to pick, the voice coming from the other side suddenly made her realise she didn’t even know what to say and Chioma’s tensed frame wasn’t helping her train of thoughts either. “Hello?” The voice sounded faintly familiar to Maryam and slowly, the wheels in her brain began to turn as she tried to place where she had heard the voice before. “Who is this please?” The voice was sounding impatient and when Maryam still maintained her silence, the line went dead. “What did the person say?” Chioma asked with a noticeable tremor in her voice. There was a thoughtful expression on Maryam’s face as she kept on racking her brain. She had heard that voice before, she was sure of it. Where had she heard the voice before? It sounded polished and educated. The voice had sounded a bit professional and then it hit her, “I think I know who owns the number. The voice, it sounds familiar,” Chioma looked as if her eyes would pop out of their sockets as she watched Maryam stand up excitedly from the bed she was sitting on. “Well who is it? What did the person say? Did the person say what they want? Was it male or female? Maryam who na, tell me!” “I dunno, what’s the name of your mother’s secretary? It sounded like her” “Gift?” “Yes, Gift, the voice sounded like hers.” There was an incredulous look on Chioma’s face as she allowed the news sink in before shaking her head. She laughed again mirthlessly laugh again. “It can’t be Gift, don’t be silly. What will Gift have to do with all of this?” But even as she asked the question, Chioma’s mind went to the day she had seen David and Gift laughing together against one of her mother’s car in an obviously romantic manner. So David was linked with Gift maybe but how did that translate to threatening her? “I am sure it is Gift. Very sure now.” Maryam’s voice was firmer and surer now, totally convinced that the voice had been Mrs. Ugochuwkwu’s secretary. Just like Chioma, she was wondering what Gift had to do with all that was going on. With shaky hands, Chioma dialed her mother’s number, “Mom, send me Gift’s number, I need to call her about something right now.” Her heart was beating wildly in her chest as she waited and she was unable to control her shaking fingers when her text message tone beeped to alert her of the message. With shaky fingers, she opened the message and stared in disbelief at the exact same number. It was the same number. What was going on? What game was gift playing? How much did she know and what had she meant by that YOU MIGHT BE NEXT? Source: PenAStory www.penastory
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/08/what-my-father-cannot-do-moses-okesola/ “……..What my father cannot do, He has done for me. What my mother cannot do, He has done for me ,oh oh oh oh oh Hallelujah he has done for me……” I sang in a mellifluous voice. “Tobi? Tobi! Do you hear me calling you?” I stood stone-still at the sound of my father’s voice echoing from the sitting room. If there is one thing I know about my Father, he hates to be kept waiting. My siblings and I knew this fact and kept it committed to memory. I immediately felt the cool damp evening air on my forehead and bare legs. I was torn between obeying my father’s urgent summons and desperately trying to find a way to finish the song I was singing while trying to play my keyboard at the same time. I gnawed on the corner of my mouth, my stomach a roiling knot of ambivalence. My parents had rejected my request for a laptop some days earlier because of the foreign exchange rate, telling me to wait until the Naira was strong again so imagine my surprise when I got an alert on my phone informing me that my favorite Aunt in Dallas just sent me money to get a new laptop. I had also informed her a day before, I was overwhelmed and filled with joy and quickly made a mental calculation of the current exchange rate. Anyways, I quickly made a decision, heading towards the sitting room. “Didn’t you hear me calling you?” He asked. He sounded stern and angry. ”Yes sir”, I replied quietly. ‘Why didn’t you answer?” I made a very big mistake and rolled my eyes. It all happened in a flash. The next thing I knew, I was on the floor. I had just been given a gravity defying slap. The type popularly called “igbati oloyii’ by the Yorubas. If I had anticipated the slap, I might have been able to avoid. My Dad towers over at six feet and three inches and weighed over eighty-eight pounds. From the floor where I lay disoriented and dazed, I heard my mum’s voice from the kitchen.”Joor Baba Tobi, maa pa omo mi fun mi o!” How my mum got to me within the space of those seconds, I will never know, all I know was that I was being helped up by my mum. I guess it’s a natural feeling for mothers to protect their children whenever they feel they’re in harm way. After making sure I was okay, the next thing that happened was quite funny and unbelievable. I didn’t even see it coming. All I saw was a quick wave of my mother’s hand to my face with the sound ricocheting off to a far distance. Before I could say Jack Robinson, I was on the floor again. Only this time, I was momentarily paralyzed from my waist up with the only sign of movement, coming from my ringing ear. I felt this buzz on my left ear that reminded me of bees in large numbers and at the same time the volcanic eruption that happened at the bottom of Mount Vesuvius in the movie ”Pompeii” featuring my favorite “Game of Thrones” actor Kit Harrington. With me laying stunned on the floor and my dad peering at me from a distance, I tried to focus on my mother’s face but it seemed like the whole room was just spinning around. I suddenly had an epiphany and the last statement I heard before falling unconscious was “shebi awa ni what my father and mother can not do, he has done for me abi?” My parents are not evil or wicked people, it wasn’t as if they didn’t want me praising the Lord or something, I just had to learn an important lesson of my life that fateful night. Now, I am wiser and know when to talk and keep my mouth shut. Up until till this present moment, I still have shivers when I hear that song. It’s so serious that whenever I hear that particular song from a church or an event, it serves as a reminder of that unusual night. Source:PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/08/6-awesome-ways-to-keep-the-spark-alive-in-your-relationship-pancho-wealth/ In a perfect world, each moment of a relationship would be like that weak-kneed romantic scene in “The English Patient” when Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas finally get together. So what keeps us from living that swoony, loopy-in-love life? Nothing more than getting stuck in the same day-in, day-out patterns and letting gushiness shift to the back burner. Okay, maybe that and the lack of a beautiful African desert background. Let Cosmo play mushy-moments director and push you to pack as much lovey-doveyness as possible into your daily duo. That means seizing every opportunity to sweeten up even the most seemingly unsentimental times together. Here are some easy but so-worth-it ways to jump-start both of your hearts. Share a secret code. Pick a word that is likely to come up occasionally in conversation (heat, midnight, bedroom, whipped cream…) and agree that every time someone uses it, you have to touch — anything from a kiss to a lingering thigh stroke under the table. Get swept off your feet. Make up your own tango moves and groove with your guy for 15 minutes while you wait for dinner. Pop in the Marc Anthony CD then press your pelvises together, entwine your legs, and twist and twirl around the living room. “Slow dancing is so intimate,” says Godek. “The way you stand hip-to-hip, block out the world, and sway to each other’s rhythms…now you’re really cookin’.” Dish with Him. Flash back to the ’50s and get passionate over pots and pans. “It’s totally not very conventional finding a man that does the dishes with you but I find doing dishes together incredibly romantic,” says Bimpe, a 28-year-old banker. “My dishwasher went on the blink one night, and my boyfriend offered to help clean up. We both rolled up our sleeves and got sudsy in the warm water. We talked about the places we would love to travel to, the crazy things we would like to try just once in our lives while our hands kept touching — we just got completely lost in each other as we did this mindless activity. It was so sweet and oddly intimate that I haven’t bothered to get the dishwasher fixed.” Touch Tenderly in Front of the TV. When you are both watching some TV, heat things up with some hands-on action. “Give each other mini foot massages while watching the evening news,” suggests Laura Corn, author of 101 Nights of Grrreat Romance (Park Avenue Publishers, 1995). “Or lay your head in his lap and let him stroke your hair.” For the ultimate drive-in date experience, invest in an extralong extension cord and watch TV outside on the deck or on lawn chairs on the front stoop underneath the stars. Flash Him. When no one’s looking, give your guy a sneak peek in public. Granted, it’s not exactly violins-in-the-background romantic, but it’s certainly guaranteed to send his heart (and pulse) soaring. Compliment Each Other in Public. “My girlfriend tells everyone that I’m the most talented person she’s ever met,” says Andrew, 28, a teacher. “She’ll tell a cashier, ‘We’ll take a chocolate brownie because my guy so deserves it.’ When she introduces me, she says, ‘This is my hilariously funny boyfriend’ or ‘Meet my handsome boyfriend. He puts Van Vicker and Banky W to shame.’ My heart jumps every time. I swear it makes go out with her.” Source : PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/08/vendetta-episode-4-abraham-isaac/ Excerpt From Episode 3: The opportunity had to present itself quickly enough but not too quickly. There would be a trap and he would be the bait. Then, he would wait. Wait for the hunt to bite. A wise prey lures the hunter into becoming the hunted. It would have to need some thinking over. With a wolfish smile, he sat down by his bedpost and began to plot…To read episode 3, visit profile or www.penastory.com The young man called Ophir observed the giant sundial and saw that he had half an hour before facing the Pete lad in the final. He peered out of the sole window of the bivouac that lodged him and absorbed some of the sunshine. It had rained earlier and the energy of the sun felt quite refreshing. He then moved quickly away from it. He couldn’t get accustomed to any form of comfort till his work was done. He considered his reflection on the “little-too-polished”sword lying idly on the desk in front of him. So far, he had done a good job. After his compatriot Outlander had botched the first mission, his ruler was somewhat reluctant to approve another. Two consecutively foiled attempts on the life of the Emperor wouldn’t go unnoticed. Sooner or later, they would find out that it was the Outlanders who had sent them both. That would spell disaster. He recalled the last instructions he received from his commander before embarking on the mission, “Should you fail, there’s a very slim chance of it, you must erase every trace of culpability from the outlands. Your cloak conceals a poison, you cannot be arrested or interrogated. “ Well, he hadn’t. Not yet, neither did he intend to. He considered the Pete lad and felt a pinch of pity for him. Outlanders took no prisoners. Up until the finals, every contestant to have faced him had not disappointed. That was expected, only the best of the best competed for a place in the Emperor’s inner circle. The rest of the survivors were drafted into the army which was still an achievement of some sorts to be reckoned with. But no one who had faced him yet had survived. Not even the Pete lad would. Pete. A nice kid name. He certainly wasn’t one of the ones Ophir would have banked on from the beginning and that was hardly surprising. The kid just didn’t look the part. He certainly didn’t look the fight too. But somehow, he kept winning. By a combination of what looked like a lot of luck, a little skill and a little element of nothing, the kid somehow managed to win his matches. He was also good on the defense, Ophir mused as he continued his mental exercise. He would have to watch that defense. In the end, he decided on the best strategy to work with. A well-executed, non-stop, all-out attacking barrage could break through any defense with time. With a continuous onslaught, the defense would crack then, he would get his chance to strike.and that would be the end of it. His mind strayed to the element of luck too. Noise had begun to fill up the arena. Soon, he would be called up to compete. It probably wouldn’t hurt to have the gods on his side now. As he knelt down in a solemn supplication to Ares, the God of War, he thought of his fallen compatriot and mustered a smile that did not reach the corners of his eyes. In the very worst, at least the bastards wouldn’t not take him alive. Ophir was still praying when his name boomed across the arena. He arose slowly, picked up the scabbard of jade that covered his razor-sharp sword and stepped out into the sunshine. *** “Pete Rosenberg!” Ekdikisi walked gingerly into the arena. She had spent the last few hours updating her journal and planning her strategy. So far, all had gone according to plan. She had succeeded in portraying the image of the scared little underdog that kept getting lucky. That was good. The least dangerous she looked, the better she was for it. As she squared off with Ophir, she bowed as a sign of respect and smiled a little. He bowed back but did not smile or frown. He did not show any sign that he had noticed her. In fact, but for the fact that he drew his sword, he might as well have looked like she wasn’t there. Tough guy, she thought and then smiled some more. She drew and squared off with him. It wasn’t long before he began to attack. That was expected. She was already used to the sequence and was solely defending. The time to attack was yet to come. Then, she sensed it. The slowly-building panic that came from pent up frustration. But it wasn’t yet the time. They were moving, dancing in a rigid circle of sorts while he kept defending in the shade provided by the surrounding onlookers. Slowly she danced him out of the shade into the bare sunlight. He moved in a hurry to strike her, banking on the decreased visibility the shade now offered her. That was when she struck. She parted the helm of her garb at angle and raised her sword in a basic defensive stroke. It seemed to happen in a flash, Ophir saw what clearly looked like the outline of the sides of the female breasts and was stunned beyond reason. His grip softened as his brain tried to register what his eyes had just seen. Ekdikisi drew a sharp breath and turned his own sword against him, reflecting the overwhelmingly bright sunlight into his naked eyes. Ophir blinked furiously. It was the end for him. Before his eyes absorbed the shock of the light and reopened, he was on his back with a edge of a rapier pointing at his chest. The arena erupted. He had lost. He had failed. At least, he was prepared for this eventuality. How was he to know he was going toe to toe with a master artist? That finish was a classy work of art. How was he to know Pete Rosenberg had breasts? Tiny breasts, but breasts all the same. The gods be damned! Freaking Ares! How stupid could he have been to have prayed to that nut job anyway!? She was smiling at him again. Damnit! At least, he was prepared for this one. The bastards wouldn’t recruit him. It was too dangerous for the Outlanders. He knew what he had to do. They would remember his sacrifice. A bird flew over as he reached for the poison. A blood-curling high pitched cry, a rustle of wings, the swift movement of a treacherous dagger and blood. Lots of blood. Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/05/my-source-of-motivation-an-interview-with-a-fan-kunbi-black/ FAN: *screams on top of her voice* OMG!!!!! Kunbi Black…Hi!!!!…I’m a super fan! ME: *blushes* Awwwn! Now you gonna make me cry. FAN: (laughs) I’m serious joor…are you always like this? ME: Like how? FAN: Errrmm…like funny and naughty like this. ME: Lol! Haba! Babe… I’m human now and I have my ups and downs too. Not every time I’m happy or want to make people same. Sometimes, I just want to be alone and not talk to anybody. FAN: Hmmm! Interesting! Newaiz I have been meaning to ask you…how do you do all of this…I mean you act, present on radio and on tv, Host events, speak to people and of course produce comedy shows. ME: *smiles* Na God oh my sister. FAN: ohhhh….I’m serious joor….what really motivates you? ME: Sincerely, I was super serious when I mentioned the God-factor but in addition to that, I would say POVERTY!!! FAN: Poverty ![]() ME: Yes oh my dear! There is a certain level to which hunger will kill you that you automatically become multi-talented. FAN: *laughs uncontrollably* ME: I’m for real mehn!!! Simply put, poverty births creativity. It makes you start thinking about the money you cannot afford, the things you desire. You begin to hunger for stardom when on several occasions at different places you are looked on and spoken to anyhow just because you didn’t come in a car or you are not putting on an expensive outfit or accessory. The more you keep facing stuffs like that, the more you begin to hunger for stardom, relevance and success. I long badly to avoid living the kind of life my parents lived. Hence, my creativity was birthed out of my drive to want my father’s maximum achievement become my minimum. FAN: WOW!!! ME: Fact! FAN: I see, now I totally get the angle you are coming from ME: Yes oh! I’m coming from a place where thinking outside the box isn’t enough. You have to think on top of the box else no food on my plate. FAN: Thanks for your time. It was great meeting and chatting with you ME: Ah! No wahala….nah you be my Oga P.S:- BEING BORN OR SURROUNDED BY POVERTY ISN’T AN EXCUSE FOR FAILURE. I BAILED OUT OF POVERTY THOUGH IT WAS WHAT INSPIRED MY CREATIVITY AND HAS MADE KUNBI BLACK WHO HE IS TODAY, BROUGHT ME THUS FAR AND IS TAKING ME TO THE PROMISE LAND OF COMPLETE SUCCESS, ACHIEVEMENT AND FULFILLMENT. Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/05/poetry-play-18/ Samuel Oluwatobi Olatunji and Keenah-Kay Chekwas S: I’m a star in shards Fragments fallen like tears from the eye of the sky K: Trying desperately to pick the broken pieces… Each much heavier than the last S: I feel like a shaved peacock Walking with nude ugliness A pearl un-pearl-ed K: Stripped bare of all its glory Relegated to the background Wishing for what once was S: I search for sunlight To breathe brightness again But the night has clothed me in a blanket of darkness K: I’m blind to the world and deaf to voices in my head… I just want a way out to paradise S: I want a glimpse of goodness The sweetness of sight But all I get is the memory of the car that crushed out my eyeballs M: The tragedy of that day hung over my head like a wet cloud A reminder of what will always be S: A reminder of robbed radiance Of stolen sunshine Of broken beauty A reminder of how my life has been ruined M: If I could turn back the hands of time A phrase so often used I find myself wishing for that But then again I ask myself If I really had the power Would I give up what I had then just I get this back? S: But since I’m just a pawn of God I fall, kissing the feet of my fate M: Begging for one last chance to make it right. NB: Poetry Play, a product of Artilogue in partnership with PenAStory, is a game in form of poetic dialogue for every poet on BBM. It is a game of two poets: one drops a line or more, and the other replies, flowing along until one of them gives up, or the poem gets too long. Every poem formed from this game will be published here (penastory.com) every Friday and Saturday. So poets, are you ready to play? If yes, contact Samuel via BBM: 7f5210ec Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/04/the-rains/ I long for the rainy seasons Imaginations of muddy streets actions of slipping feet and communal pity of offered cleansing From the stains of brown abomination Washing them off, anticipating a new era of the plantings I’m tired of this repulsive dry season Of hot and feverish dripping liquids From slimy and sleek brown skins Nights of nightmarish hallucinations And days of reluctant hugs and rotund words. Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/03/advice-me-i-have-a-stingy-boyfriend-who-also-complains-a-lot/ I have to commend the PenAStory team for all the beautiful publications that you guys are doing on this blog, it is really good to just have a place to read nice stuffs even though I have never made any submission, I am a fan and I want to say kudos. The issue I have is that I would like other blog readers to advice me on the issue of my boyfriend whom I have been dating for about 11 months now. He is a good guy but I noticed that whenever the issue of money comes up, he tends to get angry and would feel like I am trying to use him for money which is not true because I feel relationships should be about mutual support. This is someone I have on several occasions paid for our dates. My friends will kill me if they know about this but thank God you are not going to be publishing my name with this mail. I have to tell you, I am currently doing my NYSC and he graduated like two years back and started working recently. I see a future for our relationship but I need to be sure that it is not something I will regret later on because if he is stingy now, what would happen if we eventually get married. That is just one of the problems I have with him,, another issue we have is that he can complain! I thought it was girls that complain about things but he complains about every little thing and it is like he is just waiting for an excuse to say something about what I have done wrong. When he is not complaining, he is loving and caring and this is really confusing. Please, I need a solution to this headache of mine. Thank you. Feel free to send your relationship issues to us via contactpenastory@gmail.com. Asides the blog readers’ comments, you get two experts from our team sending you their candid advice! Get updates on our post by joining our BBM Channel via C00396EEB, if you are reading from mobile click: http://pin.bbm.com/C00396EEB Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/02/what-is-love-vivian-m-omotosho/ Everyone says they are in love But I kept on asking myself how do they know they are in love Is it when you want to give their all to make the other happy? Is it when you do things you won’t normally do? Why can’t I just understand love? How do I know am in love I kept asking myself? I guess I have kept my heart locked up for so long that I don’t even have emotions I guess my heart is made of steel Does love ever makes you want to be a worthy opponent? Cos that’s how I feel Why is love such a hard topic for me to comprehend? Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/02/dont-say-jesus-part-2-18/ Excerpt From Part 1: After sucking for me for what seemed like forever, I felt my pleasure increase and I began to moan softly. I knew I was about to burst and as I felt the first spurt of cum jet out of my cock even as my legs buckled but she her hands held on tight to keep me from falling. Just then, the sound of a knock came on the door and Brother Tunde’s voice came booming… To Read Part 1 visit profile or check www.penastory.com[i] [/i] She looked at me as if she was going to faint before she quickly composed herself and whispered, “quick, go into the bathroom and don’t come out till after about ten minutes. I will tell daddy that you are in the toilet.” As she talked, she had already pulled her discarded wrapper around herself and pushed me gently towards the direction of the bathroom. She then tiptoed back into the room and as I opened the bathroom door, I heard another loud knock come on the door. “Blessing oh!” Brother Tunde’s voice came, this time his voice sounding a bit more impatient even while I forced myself to sit down on the toilet seat with my heart beating in my chest furiously. “Yes daddy, I am coming,” there was a lazy inflection in her voice as she made a good show of banging the bedroom door before going to open the door. “I was sleeping before, welcome sir.” “You and this your bad habit of sleeping. Hasn’t Kunle come yet?” “Kunle,” I heard confusion in her voice and my heart beat even louder, “I left him here before going inside. I don’t know, maybe he is in the toilet or something.” I caught on with her lie immediately and shouted. “Sir, I am here, I am using the toilet, I would be out in a minute.” “Okay, please be fast, we are already behind schedule as it is.” I splashed water on my face so that Brother Tunde wouldn’t have to wonder why I was sweating and then proceeded to flush the toilet like someone who had just used it and went out. Blessing’s quick planning had somehow helped me to manage my own nervousness and I tried not to let any form of jitter show as I greeted him. She had obviously gone back into her room again as she was nowhere in sight which was good for me because I didn’t trust myself not to have a guilty expression on my face at having to see her but I felt different. I had just come close to having sex with her and the feeling of her mouth on her my dick somehow translated into releasing my voice because I found my voice again and Brother Tunde commended me about how all I needed was just a little prodding to have gotten myself back into form. If only he knew that it wasn’t his teaching that had helped me but his daughter’s magic. Having tasted a bit of what it seemed like now to have a woman’s mouth on my dick, I knew that I wanted more. I wanted to explore her body and feel that mounting excitement, I wanted to know what it would feel like if I got the chance to stick my dick into her. Would it taste the same way? Would it feel better? Thoughts of her flat stomach, her mounds of breasts and the areole, the nipples that I had sucked on and felt like I was being weaned kept my finding their way into my mind and soon I felt like was going to go crazy if I didn’t find out the answers to these questions. I needed to know what it felt like to actually sleep with a woman and Aunty Blessing was my only option. I needed to see her again and I needed her to take me through the process since she had decided to rob me of my innocence, she might as well be the one to take away my virginity. Not that there was any other female that I knew that I could have gone to for sex, I was just that much of a greenhorn and it was with pleasure when about three weeks after the incident, she walked up to me after church and said her father was going on some sort of evangelical mission with some other selected members of the church for three days and if I could come keep her company the next day. I didn’t need to be told what she was insinuating and I readily accepted knowing that this time around, I wasn’t going to be content with just her mouth on my dick. I wanted the full package, to put my dick into that wet place between her legs and have their lips close around my dick as they suck me inside, welcoming into their fold but at the same time I was nervous. Was I going to be able to do this? What if she didn’t like the way I did it? What if I didn’t even know how to do it? Well it was not like I knew how to do it the first time around when she had seduced me. I found my heart accelerating as I knocked on their door, this time it wasn’t from fear that her father was going to walk in on us, it was from the anticipation of what was to come. I was like a little kid that was unwrapping a Christmas present and knew that whatever it was, it was going to be something to love. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one that was in anticipation, she locked the door behind her and pulled me to her, crushing my lips to hers. She smelt of talcum powder and another scent that I couldn’t place my hand on and maybe it was that other smell that left me giddy because I found myself rubbing my hands over her body as she unbuttoned my shirt with haste all the while playing tongue games with my mouth. As she unbuttoned, I explored her body underneath the wrapper she had tied around her and found myself unknotting it so that it dropped to her feet and I saw she was wearing nothing underneath. She had apparently been waiting for me and my hands involuntarily went to her breasts. They felt so familiar and yet so strange in their softness as I squeezed and she pushed me back, a look of pain on her face. “Not so hard,” “Sorry,” I muttered realizing that I had squeezed too hard in my haste and caused her pain. She went for my trousers next and with those deft fingers had me out of my trouser without another word. We were still in the living room as she seemed like she couldn’t be bothered about making a move towards the bedroom and went down on her knees. Her velvety soft mouth enclosed my hard on and I closed my eyes as the breath seemed to have been knocked out of me. This was paradise and the pastors that said we should wait until marriage before sex didn’t know what they were saying. Her head bobbed up and down on my dick in quick movements, it was like she was in a hurry unlike the last time when she had been bent on torturing me with teasing. If only I was experienced enough to know that these were simply signs of a girl in heat. She alternated between sucking me whole and taking in parts even as we stood right where we were, by the door. My own head thrown back with my mouth slightly opened as I allowed the sensation to course through my body. I suddenly understood why Papa Emeka had twelve children despite his being poor, who could resist this kind of pleasure from the fear of getting his wife pregnant. The thought of pregnancy snapped me out of my sweet delirium and I choked out, “I didn’t bring condoms,” her mouth action on my dick stopped and she looked up at me and smiled. “I am always prepared, don’t worry I am on pills and I should have some in my bag somewhere so don’t worry about getting me pregnant, I am not stupid.” With that she took my hand like a child and led me to the chair. “Lie down,” she commanded in a voice made thick with desire and then she went back on my dick and began sucking again. This was paradise on earth and my treacherous mind went to the thoughts that heaven couldn’t be any better than this. She had been sucking for another six minutes when I felt that familiar storm building again and began to thrust into her mouth and she noticed my action and increased her own sucking. “I want to Bleep you,” I found myself saying even as I thrust into her mouth unable to control my passion and knowing that any moment from now I was going to be climaxing. She made a noise on my dick and response without stopping her sucking which this time was taking the entire length of my dick in my mouth so that I actually felt the cap of my dick touching the back of her throat. Nothing had ever felt so good as this and when the first rope of cum jetted out of my dick, she quickly removed her mouth and took my dick in her hand, placing it above her mouth so my cum was splattering all over her face and I bit down on my lips so that I wouldn’t shout the Jesus that had come to my lips again. When my dick was done releasing all of it juices, she looked at me with her cum splattered face and said, “We are still going to Bleep, that was preparatory class. You are a virgin, don’t want you to cum the minute you enter. Now get that dick up as soon as you can so we can proceed to nursery school.” Jesus, I was in for a long haul and I couldn’t be any happier. Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/02/the-tenere-fall-a-sci-fi/ T.I.M.E. complex, Ténéré, Sahara 2132 Ejiro stood at his balcony and stretched, he gulped in as much fresh air as he could then exhaled slowly. He loved it here, on his balcony, set above the forest canopy. He loved to come out in the morning to watch the sun as it crept up from behind the huge trees and bathed the forest and his balcony. Looking out at the canopy that stretched out as far as eye could see and listening to the life the forest housed, it was difficult to imagine the barren desert that once was, a century before. “Ejiro, they must be waiting,” Ejiro turned around to find Sal beside him. Sal was a 3 foot tall android Ejiro had had since he was a child. “Let them wait,” Ejiro said, “they should wait, I want to savour every minute, every second of this day.” “It is twenty minutes past 8 o’clock” “You cannot rush history, Sal. No one should attempt rushing history,” Ejiro said finally tearing himself from the balcony and walking into his room. He paused and stared at his room for some moments before he walked across, opened the door and left, Sal followed closely behind. They walked down a brightly lit corridor to an elevator. “The takeoff laboratory,” Ejiro instructed as they entered. The elevator doors closed and it began its ascent. Ejiro looked out through its glass wall into the large atrium. Only one thing occupied the atrium, a giant hologram of a man, standing and smiling. It was Professor Obinna Nwude, the person who first came up with the design, in 2095 with which T.I.M.E was built. The elevator halted at the last floor and then began going across the atrium, over Professor Nwude’s head. It stopped at the other side and the doors opened. Ejiro and Sal walked out, towards the only door around. The door opened immediately and let them in. “For someone who has dedicated his entire life to time travel research, you sure do know how to show up late,” the voice of the chief engineer, Funke Baruti, echoed across the large hall. She was standing in the midst of several other engineers, scientists and stakeholders who had come from all over Africa and the rest of the world to witness the first manned time travel attempt. “I am sorry,” Ejiro replied and she nodded. He headed to the changing room with Sal and quickly changed into his titanium layered overall suit and helmet then walked into the tunnel. The tunnel housed T.I.M.E itself. On one side of the tunnel, was a large mechanical catapult with a heavily streamlined vehicle attached to it. Ejiro walked to the vehicle and entered with Sal, they both latched on their set belts. Funke and the others watched from a glass cubicle above the tunnel. The mechanical catapult which was powered by nuclear fusion, roared to life, gathering enough energy to propel the vehicle along the straight line of the tunnel at speed of light. Ejiro swallowed and got ready. In an explosion of light, the vehicle disappeared, Ejiro shut his eyes as his stomach churned and his head pounded but in a few seconds, everything stopped, the light diminished and Ejiro opened his eyes. The vehicle was floating in nothingness, there was nothing around, only the dim light filled everywhere. “We are in a time loop,” Sal said calling Ejiro back. Ejiro immediately typed in the date destination on the keys on the dashboard. The vehicle jerked and began falling, Ejiro shut his eyes again, held on to his chair and tried not to scream. They continued falling for a while without making impact. Ejiro gathered courage and opened his eye. He saw the T.I.M.E complex, big and imposing, then it became small and disappeared, replaced by the forest, the trees in the forest began shrinking, till they became shrubs and disappeared, replaced by an extensive irrigation project. “We are falling through time,” he said, Sal nodded its mechanical head. The irrigation project disappeared and was replaced by a sea of sand, then Ejiro heard a series of explosions and saw a mushroom cloud in the distance. They stopped falling, the vehicle died down. Ejiro opened his door and stepped out into the hot sandy desert. He removed his helmet and the dry wind smacked his face, he smiled to himself as Sal joined him. He gulped in as much air as he could, Ténéré smelt differently in 2011. Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/01/tales-of-a-young-lagosian-moses-okesola/ Most people go through life with one particular and constant thought on their mind. the need to become successful in their chosen field or career. The need to be their own boss, own a car, buy a house, be the C.E.O of their own company. The need to stamp one’s mark in the world and be the head is prevalent with at least 98 percent of the inhabitants of planet earth. We see a lot of people with big dreams and ambitions from the fashion and entertainment industry to young executives in the business world. Personally, I have nothing against this people, I just feel that people shouldn’t always have this notion that being the boss of something actually relates to being successful. Let me use my family as an example. My name is Kunle Adeosun, a young banker in a Micro-Finance bank in Lagos and the second son in a family of 5. I grew up in a typical Nigerian middle class household with wonderful people. My father, Femi and my mother Yewande are examples of hardworking people seeking the Nigerian dream. My father was an electrical engineer at Air View Tech, one of the biggest technology companies in Lagos for ten years and then he decided to quit because he wanted to be his own boss. As a senior employee at Air View Tech, he had various benefits: the company paid for our education and sponsored us on annual vacation trips all around the world., they gave my dad annual bonuses, a house and a car and my dad threw all that away to become his own boss. My mother, a secretary at an advertising firm supported his decision because she believed in his dreams. After obtaining a substantial loan from the bank and spending a lot of money on obtaining a license of operation, my father started his own electrical company. Finally, he was his own boss. His friends came over and drank to his success. I think I was about 10 years old at the time. I did not really understand what the fuss was about, all I knew was that my father was being congratulated and we all celebrated with him. A year later, Adeosun Technologies was on the brink of foreclosure (that was what he called it, he probably meant it to be family business). His friends who celebrated with him the other day were nowhere to be found. So at the age of 39, my dad dusted his shoes and went back from company to company with his resume looking for a job. He finally found one as a salesman but to this present day, he has always regretted his decision to leave Air View Technologies. Who knew if he would have made vice-president or something if he hadn’t left? Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying because it didn’t work out for my father, it won’t work out for other people. I just believe that if you’ have a good thing going, stick with it. According to my own personal experience, only a few people who start out on their own actually succeed. I am not trying to sound like a pessimist but it is actually true but what the hell do I know? Like someone we all know, I am just trying to make common sense. Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/01/5-quick-ways-to-get-over-your-ex-pancho-wealth/ Breakups are among the most painful transitions that we endure. The pain of losing someone you have loved and still love — someone with whom you shared your heart, your dreams, and your life — can be devastating. Breakups also activate old wounds from past losses: other breakups, early losses, your parents’ divorce, or betrayal from friends. That is why they can be profound opportunities to heal, if we approach them as such. Yet all too often, people remain stuck on their ex and can’t seem to move forward, they find themselves caught in a negative spiral of trying to figure out what went wrong, feeling angry at themselves or at their ex, or stuck in a depressed or anxious state. They may also be in a new and healthy relationship, but still ruminating on a past love. If this describes you, here are five ways on how you can get over your ex : Do not feel sorry for yourself! Every so-called step back is an opportunity to leap forward. Believe that you can get over this person, because you will. Make a list of all the reasons why you deserve to be happy. This will keep you from feeling sorry for yourself. List friends, family, opportunities, general health. When you take stock of how much you have, you will begin to feel better. Get rid of everything that reminds you of your ex; pictures, gifts, phone number etc. You don’t have to destroy things unless the person in question was a negative force in your life. Tuck those things away in a safe place. The truth is that later on, you will be happy you saved the memories even if the person wasn’t the greatest. Have fun! Go out with friends, go bowling, to a movie, ice skating, or even go on a date. Anything to take your mind off of your ex. Don’t talk to the same friends that know him/her. It’s best to keep your distance from your ex’s friends even if they are good people. The reason is that you want to try to rebuild your life from the ground up, and you don’t want to be pulled back into the vortex of your former life. If you see your friends, don’t avoid them but don’t go out of your way to make plans with them. You want to be civil and respectful but it is hard to get over your ex when his or her friends are constantly reminding you of them. If your ex’s friends ask you why you’re “avoiding” them, just say something like: “I’m really trying to make some time for myself. While I was with [your ex], I didn’t always get to. Now that we are no longer together, I am making that a priority.” Stay away from alcohol and other stimulants. In the movies, a breakup is usually followed by the movie star reaching for a swig of whiskey. Alcohol and other stimulants won’t make your breakup any easier — don’t rely on them to get over your ex! Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/03/01/annoucement-of-penastory-love-contest-2016-winners/ We at PenAStory will like to thank all the contestants that made submissions for the PenAStory Love Contest 2016 edition. We understand that the task of creative writing can be quite daunting at times but we are glad that we received a good turn out of entries for the contest. It was with displeasure that we however had to disqualify some of the entries because they didn’t follow the guidelines that governed the contest. In all we were able to shortlist only seventeen (17) entries of the stories. For the stories that were shortlisted, we made no editing on them so as not to give any contest unfair advantage over others and opened the online voting period for our readers to vote via our BBM Channel C00396EEB and Instagram via @pen_a_story. This was our way of getting the audience involved with the selection of winners. The online voting ended by midnight of February 29. As we earlier stated, the final decision to select winners rest on the PenAStory Team members and it is with pleasure that we announce to you our three winners. THIRD POSITION In third place is contestant #16 with contestant name being Vivian Okeke, you can read her entry clicking HERE SECOND POSITION Coming in just before our winner is contestant #2 with contestant name being Adesina Oloruntorera Tamilore and you can read her entry by clicking HERE FIRST POSITION We are pleased to inform the general reading public that the winner of the 2016 PenAStory Love Contest is contestant #13 with contestant name being Jegede Oluwakayode and you can read his entry by clicking HERE. All winners will be contacted in order to forward them their cash prizes as we could no longer hold the luncheon we proposed as two of the winners are not in Lagos. Once again we say thank you for being an ardent reader of PenAStory and do continue to read with us. We have many more future contests and you can follow or contact us via any of the following under-listed with our BBM Channel and email being the fastest way to reach us. CONTACT DETAILS PenAStory Website: www.penastory.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/penastory Twitter: @Pen_a_Story Instagram: @Pen_a_Story BBM Pin: 59379B53 BBM Channel Pin: C00396EEB (or search for PenAStory under BBM Channels), if you are reading from mobile, you can visit www.penastory and to click the BBM Logo at the bottom of the oage to join or click http://pin.bbm.com/C00396EEB Email: contactpenastory@gmail.com
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http://penastory.com/2016/02/27/that-night-in-my-best-friends-bed-just-a-little-more-18-oluwalolope-osidipe/ I had had a busy day. I was so tired that my tired was too tired to be tired. The lab work which had something to do with land surveying in this hot sun had not helped matters not to mention the other million of errands I had had to go about. I was practically roasted from the heat of the sun and couldn’t agree more when I saw a joke about the last person that entered hell forgetting to close the doors. It wasn’t only the heat of the weather I was feeling as well, I was hot from pent up Hot feelings as well. We had agreed that we were not going to have sex since it seemed we were having too much though if you ask me, there is no such thing as too much sex in a relationship but all the same, we had agreed to a celibacy streak. Maybe it was the frustration from the weather’s hotness and my body’s personal high temperature from unfulfilled desires, I had snapped at him angrily and we had a fight. We tried talking about it the next day but it was futile, we are just too stubborn for our own good. Then he called, he wanted to give talk another shot, he wanted us to settle our issues he said so I got dressed and went to meet him. We decided to take a walk around school and maybe by habit or by instinct we ended up in a dark corner. Don’t worry nothing like the last time happened. We are still good on our celibacy pact except you think otherwise when you read what happened. We sat down facing nothing in particular and started talking. As we talked, my mind was far from the talk as I kept waiting for him to kiss me because I was so Hot. We worked better with our bodies doing the talking rather than our mouth but he just kept on talking. I kept shifting restlessly in my seat and maybe he thought it was me shifting from guilt but far from it. When I couldn’t take the torture of being so close to him and not being able to touch him anymore, I threw myself at him and kissed him. It was like he had needed just that prompting because he kissed me back as if suddenly realising that talk is cheap and the way he nipped at the exposed areas of my neck and cleavage spoke of the hunger in him as well. At least I was not the only one. We kept making out as our tongues fought for dominance but no one was winning. We kept kissing while our hands explored everywhere possible. I was right, he wanted this as bad as I did too as I heard a deep growl in his throat before he tore at my bra. He exposed my breasts to the cool air and they immediately perked up, hardened from the desire throbbing in them. He descended on my nipple and sucked like an infant who had been separated from its mother for too long and I fed him like a mother would feed her hungry child. I wanted him to have his fill but at the same time I didn’t want to move too fast. I needed to feel something too so my hands began their exploration, they grazed over his back, his head, skimmed his arm, went to his chest and then I realized that he had been working out as he had very hard packs that were well toned. He kept sucking my boobs while his hand was beginning to touch my core through my clothes. I felt I was going crazy. His mouth left my boobs and went to my ear before dropping to drop tiny kisses all over my face. All I could do was moan his name while enjoying the pleasant torture I was receiving. We were so thankful that we were in a secluded part of the school as we could explore very well. I guess touching me was not enough contact for him as he kept his hand inside my leggings and gave me the best finger fucking I had ever received in my life. I kept moaning his name while begging for what I wasn’t sure of. Finally the release came. I felt like a shooting star travelling across the galaxy. I came so hard that I thought my limbs were going to detach from my body. He allowed me to catch my breath but not before he kissed me long and hard. Headlights of passing car illuminated our faces and I saw the lust in his eyes. I rested my head on his chest and he went back to gently sucking and nibbling on my neck and earlobes. My breath was caught in my throat and all I could do was moan contentedly. I could do this forever. He started telling me everything he would love to do to me if we had not agreed to celibacy in a very soft voice. “I want to make out with your lips while spreading you out with my fingers. I want to hear you moan so softly. I want to hear all those soft noises of yours. I want to make you whimper and scream so loud. I want to make your legs vibrate while I eat you out. I want to pull your hair while smacking your ass. Then I want to delve into your deep folds from behind while sending you to the lands of ecstasy. I want to hold you so tight that we almost merge. I wanna just Bleep you in a thousand different ways then make love with you till we are so spent that we can’t move and then we make out some more.” The talk was driving me crazy and I was read then and there to call off the celibacy as I wanted to jump his bones but my words died on my lips as his mouth went back to feasting on my breasts again and I loved the feeling of his teeth biting them gently. I knew I was going to beg him to Bleep me right then and there if he continued with what he was doing with his hands and mouth on my boobs was so groaned thickly “I think we should go.” “Or maybe we should cum?” Source: PenAStory www.penastory.com
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