[zilla_likes] Based On a True Story Characters’ names have been changed to avoid potential lawsuits and possible deaths from shame and embarrassment. Enjoy. Billy was an overweight boy that sat at the back of his classroom. He liked it at the back, he found it serenely isolated from the pell-mell of the class – the […]
Author: King
The Dead tell no Tales
[zilla_likes] By Mike Muthaka A guy walks into a bar. He’s spotting a blue sweater –a gift from his ex-girlfriend. She said that it brought out his eyes, whatever that meant. The fabric was comfortable, though. It kept him warm. Frank didn’t care much about style and much less about how it modified his […]
Ladies of the Night
[zilla_likes] It was a moonless night and beyond the walls of the club, a cold night engulfed everything in ominous darkness. The nightclub was teeming with life and animated revelers, the alcohol in their system controlling the rhythm of the night. Dancers danced and the singers sang along off-key to the rhumba blaring from the […]
A Man and His Promise
[zilla_likes] When Obonyo heard his name roll out of the President’s tongue, he could not believe it. He was ecstatic. He wanted to jump up and down in glee, and shout and kiss the President’s hand but he couldn’t. After all, it was part of being a soldier. He had to remain stoic in the […]
Men also cry
[zilla_likes] When Baraka heard the window in his living room shatter, his buttocks tightened and he felt a sharp pain in his chest. He opened his eyes wide in the dark, trying to see any shadows through curtained-off his window. His heart was pounding its way out of his chest cavity. He sat up slowly, […]