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Fiction novel by Wazauns
muganda
#11 Posted : Friday, February 05, 2010 11:44:30 AM
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picking up where TONY STARKS and Jangwa la Jangili left off...


As an onlooker, it was easy to pick out the age-old quagmire manifesting itself. A good looking man in the middle of two women. Some say that even when man lived in caves, same situation presented the same problems.

Even more daunting were the profiles of the two women. You know the softer, nicer Peris - more sensitive, more attentive, more loving. Contrasted by the bolder "get-what-I-want-now" SUMTHUNG. If there's something Sumthung thought, she would speak it. 'Why bother keeping it in anyway?' And even in the caveman's days, a 'Sumthung' would be out getting her herbs and firewood at wee hours, never one to pay too much attention to rules. Men did not choose her, she chose her catch.

And so Sumthung was out on her lunch break, from her new management trainee gig. She was sporting a short curly bob-cut with a tinge of blonde; lilac blouse and a knee length pencil skirt. Her heels could not have been less than 6 inches high and yes; when she passed many twitched their nose on the scent of her fragrance. Jack hugged but held on a second, actually 5 secs too long.



But you would need to be a beggar, begging on the pavement, to notice the now forgotten street boy. Nobody knows his name, and he is used to being unseen. It takes a ghost to see another ghost. There's nothing so humiliating as not being visible in life. Put aside not having parents, fear of poverty, hunger and isolation, not having a name - nothing beats not being there.

The street boy would be noticed today with kicks and blows as is the custom. But life would go on. Or would he? The attention to him waned and he quickly put down the mobile phone and crawled away - unseen.



Nick was definitely not a beggar but he observed the going-ons unnoticed. He's only link to the equation was he was Sumthung's supervisor in her new job. He'd noticed her immediately she joined 2 weeks ago and he couldn't help leaving for lunch a few steps behind her every other day. Maybe a desparate act to pluck up his courage. Jack Black's tan, athletic body and height intimidated him.

Ric dees
#12 Posted : Friday, February 05, 2010 12:33:27 PM
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Kagui sauntered across the road, holding his breath, not believing what had happened, for today the god's had surely smiled upon him.

Across the road from where he hid behind simu ya jamii stall, he watched Jack and could not help and admire the shiny watch he spotted on his wrist.In the mayhem and confusion he saw an opportunity and decided to go for it, he circled the group and smiled upon himself and thought to himself, maybe just maybe today was his day..

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
the sage
#13 Posted : Friday, February 05, 2010 1:23:46 PM
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The shriveled girth, wrinkly silhouette and the dilapidated one-eyed midget of a serpent that represented Kagui, brought misery to the party. The foul smell, worse than a cat’s carcass, betrayed worse off sufferers from the City’s lack of water. To complete the misfortune the ingenious scallywag said with his serpent in hand, “Give me the watch or I spray the two ladies.”
Much Know
#14 Posted : Friday, February 05, 2010 1:32:31 PM
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(I am liking this) From where I left off, (if i have any readers)

Jack was a health fanatic, handsome and certainly wealthy. A bachelor at 36, the only woman he loved was his mom, and he often told himself that he stayed strong for his mother’s sake; she was a dedicated housewife and mother. Having been abandoned by their father for a working woman, John had come to despise working women and had a payback mission for every woman who wanted to work under or around him. Consequently they moved with his mother from Lavington, to Huruma, a house his mother had refused to leave now that Jack could move her back to lavington, and the only reason he would still ride in a bus, as driving his cars deep into the ghetto always carried a risk of attack. His mom had her friends in huruma, her vegetables stall and food kiosk.

Sitting in his lounge that evening, he dialed his mom’s number to say goodnight but there was a knock on his door and he terminated the call, “its late” he thought, and heard Carol shout out his name from the door as she let herself in. She was dressed seductively “the docs and photos” she said, “oh! I almost forgot” was Jacks cool response “you should have sent one of the drivers”. “Where is John” she queried though she already knew the answer, Jack knew she knew, but she had no idea that Jack new her plans inside out, he had her phone tapped, hacked her emails, heard her followed and knew she was here to pray on him with an offer to cook, “I gave him a few days off, his first born is going to high school”, John loved Carols cooking, and she had carried some Ethiopian injeera to eat with her stews, “Ngai fafa, nimeshikwa” he thought to himself, she had even carried a big spliff and a bottle of 1969 sauvignon for after diner.

Meanwhile Peris was back to her one room shack, the two thousand her sister had M-Pesad to prep herself for the interview was used to strike a deal with the same thief, and now it was back to survival, in Huruma. She felt the interview was a disaster, she was totally intimidated panicky and lost, and so she lit a small spliff and lay back on her bed to console herself. She checked the balance on her phone and it was 1bob so she dialed for Okoa Jahazi airtime incase she needed to make an emergency call that evening, and also sent a please call me message to Jim, the experienced candidate at the interview who seemed to know everything about jobs, he had bought her pizza for a whopping seven hundred bob so casually, he had then offered to take her out, but she declined. Then she thought to herself “I am hot, men want me, but this thing of being saved and spending the whole day praying for jobs in a tent is not working, maybe I should give up on some of these principles”, she drifted to sleep as some gospel tune played on her small radio
Ras Kienyeji Man
Wakanyugi
#15 Posted : Friday, February 05, 2010 5:31:06 PM
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And then she woke up to find that its was all a dream.

'Whew, thank God,' she sighed with relief.

Then her eyes landed on the little alarm clock by her bedside table, a present from her once high school sweetheart, Jack - the mind works in strange ways.

"My God, is that the time!"

Two hours to her interview.

"I will never be able be able to make it," she exclaimed as she bounded out of bed and sprinted for the bathroom.

It was going to be another one of those days.


"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
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