Creative nonfiction prompt 149

Yesterday, on my way back from work, I broke down in the bus and let a tear or two slip from my eyes. I felt horribly and utterly alone and I was silently screaming for someone to truly see me. When I

In a world addicted to selfies, he is a ghost. So there is this guy in school, Jessy, who was a friend of a friend and later became my friend. I have known him since level 100, 2nd semester. Now we are

Imagen in Pixabay by Fotorech Today, it's a normal morning for a pregnant woman, it's my turn to go to my monthly consultation with my gynecologist, although everything is going well, I don't know if it's

"It's been a long time since we haven't enjoyed any get-together. I want to meet you." I said this to my friend Iqra on a video call. "We would meet this weekend." She replied.

There is always that one person in the family that everybody just quietly agrees is... not okay , you see In our own family, it is my mum’s elder sister Aunty Ini. See ehn, growing up, we used to fear

We were new to the neighborhood but there were just some names that we keep hearing from our neighbors. “Who is Pa. Agbongbe?” I was forced to ask my new friend in the vicinity, Bola. Before she could

I do not mince words when I say Mama is best at believing weird things. From her odd practices to trying to enforce them on us, that woman barely gave me breathing space while I was still with her. Image

Growing up, one of the seasons we all loved was the Christmas season. The gifts, the songs, the movies and the 'ho ho ho' Santa that our parents took us to see. As a child, I loved Christmas, and I would

Everyone says my younger brother is nutty and honestly, they’re not wrong. But he's the kind of nutty that made life interesting, the kind that filled our store with inventions that makes one laugh, wonder

Everyone knew uncle Felix, well, not that he was our real uncle, but here in Nigeria, that title is free and for you as long as you are old, but uncle Felix was more, he was nosy, loud and he was nutty

I don’t remember exactly when I started keeping receipts, but it’s been a while. It started small. A few supermarket receipts stuffed into a purse I no longer used. Then came shawarma night slips, ATM

She stood there like a statue, looking so lost. She couldn’t believe she had been caught while lost in her train of thought. Image Source She had never been caught all her life, and now, standing in front

Kush, kush, kush, the creepy sound continued to intensify from my brother's room. “Shankar, don't let him get to her, noo, I am coming,” My brother shouted and continued making the kush, kush, sound. I

Generated using OpenAI A cracked fence separated our side from Baba Segun’s old bungalow, which he had inherited from his late father. Baba Segun wasn't a young man anymore. In fact, his eldest son is

Images generated with Meta Ai I was introduced to this community prompt I saw that prompt title“nutty as a fruitcake”and I had to google it. Thought it was just a joke. Turns out, it means something like...

─── ❖ ── ✦ ── ❖ ─── 📸 ─── ❖ ── ✦ ── ❖ ─── Nutty as a fruitcake Watercolors for my friend Helena Helena is one of my best friends. I met her at my old job, and although we no longer work together, the

Everyone in my village said my aunt "aunty joy" is crazy, they say she is wired because in my village anyone who acts weird is abnormal but my aunt was the sweetest aunt one could ever had. I

If there is anyone I can't forget in a hurry for her one-time display, it would be my aunt, Judy. When it comes to relationships, she doesn't just have one luck for that thing. It happened in December,

If you ever visit our town, Ede in Osun State, ask about the strangest person to ever live there, everybody will point to the same man who is called Uncle Monday, the man who believed his bicycle could