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WINNER of FLASH RELAY #1

First to win the Flash Relay and a copy of Gregorowski’s Fly, Eagle, Fly! is:

 

• Monique Shante

Everyone is welcome to join in the next

  This giveaway has no geographic limitations.

SACRIFICE

My grandmother once said to me, “When we are children, we sometimes step on our parents’ toes and when we grow up, we step on their hearts. Your parents decided to stay together despite their troubled marriage so you would not suffer the consequences of divorce. Don’t rebel, but honour them for the sacrifices they’re making for you. Out of the ashes of their mistakes will rise the lessons you will need to make your marriage work someday. When it is your turn to make sacrifices for your children, remember that a fruit must decay for its seeds to germinate.”

Friday Fictioneers is a meme by Madison Woods.

ONE LOVELY BLOG AWARD

Fellow Friday Fictioneer Soph of All Things Interesting has nominated me for the One Lovely Blog Award, a gesture I couldn’t turn down. I don’t want this to turn into an acceptance speech, so I’ll get straight to it.

Here are the rules of acceptance:

1. I need to thank the person who nominated me.

2. Share 7 things about myself that you still may not know

3. Nominate 15 bloggers.

4. Notify the nominees that I have done so.

5. Put the logo of the award on my blog site.

 

I won’t list things about myself for this award, but I will answer any question you have for me. I pass on this award to all Friday Fictioneers, some of whom may have already been nominated, but that’s OK. And I know they’re much more than 15, but that’s fine with me. THANK YOU Soph for making logo-ligi lovelier.

FLASH RELAY #1

Hello Everyone!

I happen to have an extra copy of Fly, Eagle, Fly! by Christopher Gregorowski to give away to those who missed out on the last Reading Relay. All you have to do is answer this question:

What is the name of the Ghanaian educationist who originally told the story?

 

 

Fill out the form below to submit your entry.

THIS FLASH RELAY IS CLOSED

***Remember, there is only one copy to be given away this time***

Contest ends @ 11:59pm  GMT on Tuesday 6th August, 2012. The winner will be announced the following day.

This giveaway has no geographic limitations. Everyone is welcome to participate.

Picture it & Write: BLUR

Ermilia’s Picture it & Write.

The creases on my brow developed creases as I squinted at the picture. Of all the days to break my spectacles, why did it have to be this one? I could see a brown plane at the bottom and a grayish one above, a few dark spots or maybe smudges somewhere in-between, but there wasn’t much to go on from there. My head had begun to throb from hours of brooding over this optical illusion, but I still couldn’t come up with a befitting story.  Ironically, staying pensive for that long had put me in a haze. Perhaps it was time to give up and tell Ermilia I couldn’t come up with anything for this week’s Picture It & Write…  or I could just blabber on about a blur.

FOUNTAIN OF BLISS

The chipped glass hit the counter with a reverberating thud, announcing his unceremonious departure.  With bottle clutched to chest in a pledge of allegiance, he brazenly picked himself up from the floor a second time as he zigzagged his way to the door, raining putrid insults on the newcomer who innocently took his arm to steady his intoxicated dance. Swinging and swaying, he trudged to his ride. “One Gallon!” his juvenile chauffeur greeted. “Never say die until all bottles are broken,” he slurred in reply, smiling smugly as he slumped into the wheelbarrow he had hired for the trip home.

Friday Fictioneers is a meme by Madison Woods.

GHANA MOURNS

 

Ghana mourns the passing of President John Atta Mills (21st July, 1944 – 24th July, 2012)

PUBLIC SERVICE

“What? I don’t gossip. Sometimes I find out things or hear interesting news and pass that information on.” “So what do you call the ‘who’s doing who office stories’ you’ve been telling me?” “That’s a public service. It doesn’t mean I’m a gossip… Will you call the paperboy a gossip for distributing stories about other people? Besides, I’ve turned over a new leaf.” “Haha! We’ll see.” “What’s that supposed to mean?” “Nothing… how was your day?” “Oh, oh! Guess who from legal was fooling around with my boss’s wife at the Christmas party? Heard it through the grapevine this morning.”

Friday Fictioneers is a meme by Madison Woods.

IBADAN by John Pepper Clark

Ibadan is a city located in south-western Nigeria and is the capital of Oyo State with a population comprised mostly of the Yoruba people. The name Ibadan is derived from the Yoruba words Eba Odan which literally means ‘between the forest and plains’.

J.P. Clark’s poem is a short description of the city.

 

IBADAN

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Ibadan,      running splash of rust and gold – flung and scattered among seven hills like broken china in the sun.