Beyond The River Of Judgement

Beyond The River Of Judgment episode 3

  • 2 months ago

Episode 3: The Ghost Between Us When Ebiere recovered, we avoided each other. Not because we wanted to. Because we had to. At least that’s what we believed. Weeks turned into months. Yet nothing improved. Everywhere I looked, I saw her. At church. At the market. At community meetings. The feelings refused to die. Then

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Beyond The River Of Judgment Episode 2

  • 2 months ago

Episode 2: The Sin We Hadn’t Committed After that evening, I stayed away. Not completely. Just enough. No more frequent visits. No more sitting by the jetty discussing life. No more helping with every little problem. I convinced myself it was necessary. The distance would kill whatever feelings were trying to grow. Instead, it made

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Beyond The River Of Judgement

  • 2 months ago

Episode 1: The Promise I Should Never Have Made The first time I saw Ebiere cry, rain was falling over the creeks of Oporoma like heaven itself had broken apart. Her husband, Tari, my closest friend since childhood, had just been buried. The entire community gathered near the riverside cemetery. Canoes lined the shore. Women

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