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Runs Girl episode 25&26

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 25 For 2months, Stella and I didn’t talk to each other. She cooked her own meals differently while I cooked my own differently too. Infact we did everything differently including some of the things we used to do together before. Whether I was right or wrong wasn’t my concern, my happiness was that

Runs Girl episode 23&24

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 23 5.00pm on the dot, I dialled senator Clifford Obi’s number. The phone rang and rang but the senator didn’t pick. I tried again, he didn’t pick. I tried one more time, he didn’t pick. I became worried. My bank account was red and the golden opportunity I had to make money was

Runs Girl episode 21&22

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 21 The next academic session began in ernest few weeks later and the first thing I did was to storm Mr. Ofoegbu’s office. The man felt like disappearing from his office the moment he saw me. “What are you doing in my office?” He asked springing up from his seat. “I’ve come for

Runs Girl episode 19&20

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 19 I got home around 3pm in the afternoon. My dad was lying on the couch when I entered. My mum sat beside him discussing in low tone. “Daddy goodafternoon, mummy goodafternoon,” I greeted on entering. “Good afternoon dear,” my dad replied. “Linda is this you?” My mum asked standing from her seat

Runs Girl episode 17&18

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 17 My experience with Ray thought me a very big lesson – money for hand, back for ground – a new era of pay before service. The experience shattered the reverence I had for the spiritualist and I started feeling he was scam. My roommate stella could be innocent after all but that

Runs Girl episode 15&16

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 15 I logged out of facebook and went to prepare myself for the job. I wore one very short mini skirt and a very low top that revealed my cleavage. Then I slipped my feet into my 8inches high-heel shoe. By 6pm I was ready. I took a cab to Valentino hotel and

Runs Girl episode 13&14

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 13 “Your roommate is jealous of you,” the spiritualist revealed as soon as I entered the temple. “And not only that, she also wants you dead.” “Why? How?” I asked looking terrified. The man took his bell and rang it intermittently as he spun round and round. His overflowing white robe spun along

Runs Girl episode 11&12

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 11 It took me some months to recover from Alhaji Jubril’s experience. It wasn’t easy at all for me. To imagine that I had laid side by side with a corpse till daybreak was traumatic on its own. What if the ghost had strangled me to death? What story would I have narrated

Runs Girl episode 9&10

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 9 I jumped out of the bed with all the strength my legs could muster and stared at Alhaji’s lifeless body. Fear gripped me as I didn’t know what to do. Alhaji lay still on the bed with a sombre expression on his face like he was sleeping. The aphrodisiac he had taken

Runs Girl episode 7&8

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL..18+ Episode 7 I was at Hilly Zander guest house by 7 o’clock pm on the dot. I went straight to the receptionist who wasted no time in identifying me. “Cindy right?” She asked beaming her professional smile at me. “Yea Cindy,” I replied. Cindy was my business name. Stella had taught me that business

Runs Girl episode 5&6

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 5 I was in my room that friday evening a week after our exams when my phone began to ring. The number wasn’t familiar but I decided to pick. Who knows, it could be a potential client or someone important. “Hello good evening,” I greeted on picking the call. “Am I speaking with

Runs Girl episode 3&4

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 3 When I came back to our room later in the afternoon, Stella wanted to know how everything went but I refused to talk to her. This annoyed her so much and she left me alone. I lay on the bed ruminating over the events of the past night. After a while I

Runs Girl episode 2

1 year ago

#RUNS_GIRL…18+ Episode 2 I lay back on the bed feeling terribly devastated. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know who to tell and my roommate never really explained this fun thing very well to me. At the foot of the bed lay a mouth-watering cheque of two hundred and fifty thousand Naira. Chief

Runs Girl 🔞

1 year ago

Runs Girl is a story about Linda, a university student who in a bid to make ends meet and out of the desire to live large and be among the ruling babes on campus ventured into the business of selling her body for money… Read on and see how everything played out in the end…

The Silent Half episode 6

1 year ago

Episode 6: The Day I Chose MyselfA Coolvalstories Original I didn’t wake up with a fire in my belly. I didn’t wake up angry. I just woke up… different. The same chores were waiting. The same little voices fighting over slippers. The same dirty plates in the sink. Nothing changed. Except me. I was done

The Silent Half episode 5

1 year ago

Episode 5: A Room Full of Noise, and Still So AloneA Coolvalstories Original The twins were fighting again. Over a pencil this time. One had sharpened it, the other had claimed it. Within seconds, it escalated into screaming and slapping. Cries echoed through the small sitting room as I stirred egusi soup on the gas

The Silent Half episode 4

1 year ago

Episode 4: Not Just a Mother, Not Just a WifeA Coolvalstories Original There’s a lie they don’t say out loud, but we all hear it anyway:“A good woman should be satisfied with a roof over her head, children by her side, and a man who doesn’t cheat.” That’s the Nigerian gospel of womanhood. So when

The Silent Half Episode 3

1 year ago

Episode 3: A Body That Never Rests, A Heart That’s Always WaitingA Coolvalstories Original Some days, it feels like my body is no longer mine. It belongs to the children—arms stretched out to carry, back bent from lifting, breassts emptied from nursing, knees worn from scrubbing, feet swollen from standing for hours. It belongs to

The Silent Half Episode 2

1 year ago

Episode 2: The Work That Never EndsA Coolvalstories Original The alarm buzzed at 4:30am. I didn’t need it — my eyes were already open. Not from excitement, but habit. My body knew what the day required before my brain caught up. Another Monday. Another beginning to the same unending loop. I slid out of bed

The Silent Half

1 year ago

Episode 1: What They Don’t SeeA Coolvalstories Original Nobody really prepares you for motherhood in Nigeria. You think it’s just about breastfeeding and changing diapers. Nobody talks about the part where you start losing your name. Your ambition. Your self-worth. My name is Amaka. Well, it used to be. These days, I’m mostly called “Mummy

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