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ZerahWrites
@zerah
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Lagos Nigeria
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2024-07-06 10:40
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zerah
The Ink Well
2026-04-19 10:49
Quiet Peace
s My brain was full. But it wasn't the productive kind. It was the kind where your brain is filled with only noise and nothing makes sense. This time I was staring at a page that stopped making sense to
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The Ink Well
2026-04-14 21:04
On A Lonely Road
Robbed It happened so fast the night I got robbed. Just like every other day, the road looked calm. I had worked late that night, and my bus had broken down two stops before my street. It was taking time
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The Ink Well
2026-04-10 08:05
The Life I Prayed For
I was nine years old when I first told God exactly what I wanted. I wasn't in church, nor was it any prayer meeting. It was just me and the silent desires of my heart, let out to God in quiet solitude
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The Ink Well
2026-04-08 06:46
Underweighed
Underweighed Balogun market was already in full swing by the time Mama Chinedu parked her car at the lot. I checked my time; it was 8:00 a.m. Even though we were very early, voices were already rising
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The Ink Well
2026-02-16 08:57
Loving Me
The yellow Danfo oozed of damp upholstery and the faint, metallic tang of old rusty metals. I pressed my forehead against the vibrating window of the almost rickety bus dancing its way down the streets
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The Ink Well
2026-02-10 08:36
Runaway From Home
I had always threatened to move out as a kid whenever Mummy would shout at me. On that particular day, I knew it was my sign to leave. Mummy had just shouted at me for emptying her talcum powder on the
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The Ink Well
2026-02-06 07:15
Vacancy At Dinner
Vacancy At Dinner Our dining room was never just like a random room in the house. A simple square space with cream-painted walls stained by years of cooking smoke and hands, with a window that was never
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The Ink Well
2026-01-22 16:34
The Fool I Needed To Be
The Fool I Needed To Be I raised my hand before I realized it was too late to change my mind. The lecture hall was already hot that Wednesday afternoon, the kind of afternoon heat that sticks to your back,
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The Ink Well
2026-01-18 11:34
Simmer
Mama Chinedu had promised to teach me how to cook her native soup, the one I had watched her make countless times but never managed to get right on my own. So that particular Saturday evening, after I
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The Ink Well
2026-01-12 15:45
Muted
That weird feeling never announces itself, or its arrival. Just quietly it appears, just the way dust settles on a white cloth. That Tuesday, my room held me in, shielding me from the harsh heat in Lagos.
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Freewriters
2026-01-03 12:20
Little Ada _ Pic1000
The small can is on the ground, Family and friends have all gather around. Waiting for the special reveal. Would it be a boy or a girl to be. Blue the say would be a boy. And pink a girl. Suddenly, pink
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The Ink Well
2026-01-03 06:50
Weight Of The River
"Useless! Rotten, muddy sludge-trap!" The roar of the river swallowed Musa’s scream. He stood in the stern of their narrow wooden boat, shaking a net that seemed like a little pull would tear
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The Ink Well
2025-12-25 07:12
Jingle Bells
Deep in the heart of the village of Oakhaven, where snow fell like powdered sugar and chimneys hummed with the scent of pine, lived an old woodworker named Sila
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The Ink Well
2025-12-18 16:58
Silent Lagos
I jerked up from the bed. Something felt off. Something I couldn't pinpoint immediately. I listened but it wasn't there. Lagos wasn't announcing its morning properly. Lagos wasn't awake. I stood up and
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The Ink Well
2025-12-13 07:40
Fume
Fume The room felt wrong. As my eyes flickered open. It wasn't hot. It wasn't cold. It was just wrong like the air on earth wasn't oxygen anymore. At first, I blamed it on stress. Of course, stress has
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The Ink Well
2025-11-29 14:55
A Little Like Home
A Little Like Home The cold that hit me that morning as I stepped out of the train station was the kind of cold that sneaks under your jacket to settle inside your bones. Sunderland smelled of wet snow
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Freewriters
2025-11-08 15:36
Pic1000: Glacier
Pic1000: Glacier We sailed past the glacier with your hand in mine, The world was so still, like we were the perfect characters I loved how you laughed as the snow kissed your hair, and I thought such
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Freewriters
2025-11-04 05:28
PIC1000- The Girl And The Wolf
What I See A small girl in a red hood walking behind a big black wolf. They are in a quiet forest with orange leaves falling everywhere. The wolf looks a little scary but also calm. The girl doesn’t look
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The Ink Well
2025-11-01 14:37
Hard To Say Goodbyye
I woke up with a heavy heart that morning. But trust me, I had no plans of crying. The bright sun burnt my feet as I stood in front of my apartment staring at Mama Chinedu's door. Unlike every other Saturday,
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The Ink Well
2025-10-13 14:20
The Fall Of Mama Chinedu
The Fall Of Mama Chinedu It was a quiet Friday, the kind of day I had sought for weeks. There was no work for me that day. It was officially a public holiday. The kids were home too. There was no school.
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