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  • The Girl with the Golden Smile – 2

    Prompt: Use “Chocolate Cupcakes” in your 1,000 word story this time. The Girl with the Golden Smile – 2 “Wewe,” Nicholas said when he got out of his car. “Do you have a death wish?” The woman in the rain didn’t speak. Her face was bruised, and there was blood on her pink blouse. Nicholas…

  • Visiting the Ubantu Festival – 2015

    On a lazy Saturday Afternoon, my sister and I decided to see what the Ubantu Festival was about.  The festival was held in the now familiar Uhuru Gardens along Langata road.  This time however, no cake to eat, just loads of creativity, and wonderful art.  I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. And that’s that……

  • EA Friday Feature Week #4 Prompt

    The EA Friday Feature: Write a story of only 1,000 words using the prompt given.  Post it on your blog on Fridays and share the posts of fellow bloggers participating in the feature. Participating Bloggers: Nilichoandika Flashes of Vice Children of Destiny Books Love in Nairobi Week #4 Use “Chocolate Cupcakes” in your 1,000 word…

  • The Girl with the Golden Smile – 1

    Prompt: Rain, Rain, Rain: The Girl with the Golden Smile Thunder rumbled, dark clouds rolled in, large drops of rain drummed the iron sheet roof. Nalia wondered if the creator was starting a band. The drops kept falling in fierce beats on the roof, like a doomsday rhythm. She kept chopping onions, her eyes stinging.…

  • EA Friday Feature – Prompt Week #3

    The EA Friday Feature: Write a story of only 1,000 words using the prompt given.  Post it on your blog on Fridays and share the posts of fellow bloggers participating in the feature. Participating Bloggers: Nilichoandika Flashes of Vice Children of Destiny Books Love in Nairobi Week #3 Prompt: Rain, Rain, Rain….be inspired by the…

  • The Changing Tide

    Places: Beaches, Mountains, Forests or somewhere else you like…Write a story inspired by the place you like most. The Changing Tide Enya loved her hometown. She’d lived in the same stone ranch house all her life, with her mother and siblings: a nice three bedroom house that she loved to bits. Her hometown was situated…

  • EA Friday Feature – Prompt Week #2

    The EA Friday Feature: Write a story of only 1,000 words using the prompt given.  Post it on your blog on Fridays and share the posts of fellow bloggers participating in the feature. Participating Bloggers: Nilichoandika Flashes of Vice Children of Destiny Books Love in Nairobi Week #2- Prompt is: Places: Beaches, Mountains, Forests or…

  • Between Death and Heaven – Book Review

    Exciting! This blog now has 100 posts! Apparently, I have had a hundred things to say. I can’t wait to reach 200 posts, but for today, I celebrate the small victories. And the Hundredth Post is….. A Book Review! Between Death and Heaven by Annemarie Musawale What happens after we die? A vindictive ex-girlfriend (maybe,…

  • A Tail of Tissue Paper

    A Tail of Tissue Paper Helena adjusted her ponytail, tugging on a wayward braid to set it right. She’d slathered on lipstick today, staring into the mirror, Helena wished she’d chosen the pink instead of the cherry red. Oh well, she shrugged her shoulders and washed her hands in the sink. Drying her hands off,…

  • E. A. Friday Feature

    What is the E.A. Friday Feature? –          Write a story in response to the weekly prompt given of only 1,000 words.  The story can be a stand alone story.  It can also be an ongoing story to which you’ll write chapters every Friday for the feature. You post the story or chapter on your blog…