MY PAST THREE ENTRIES IN STACH SHORT STORY WRITING CONTEST.
(19th contest) MY FIRST VALENTINE
I have always thought of myself as a lone ranger, and I have never been loved ever. Valentine was approaching, and damn! Lucy was pretty no doubt about that, she has the looks of an angel, and who was I a mere bricklayer to talk to her. She was as pretty and bright as the sun I have always thought to myself, and her smiles were like those of angels.
It was the 13th of February, and I never knew what happened to me, but I was as sure as hell standing in front of her house and contemplating whether to hit the doorbell. After much contemplation I hit the doorbell, and there was I standing face to face with the gorgeous Lucy, I was mincing my words but she caught the message. I was dumbfounded when she said agreed to be my val, "I have a date!" I had screamed.
Today being the 14th of February, here I was sitting right in front of Lucy. It was my first valentine date, and I was determined to make it a memorable one.
(21st contest) A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE
It was the 10th of August year 2014, I resided around Lagos, I had just finished secondary school, and I had no intentions of furthering my education anytime soon. I attended parties, womanized, I gambled alot and I was gradually forgetting who I was, and I was becoming a serial alcoholic and womanizer.
Bayo! It was my mom, and I hated the sound of her voice, as she always told me about studying for impromptu examinations. I hated the fact that she doesn't understand I don't want to have anything to do with school again. After much persuasion from her, I decided to start studying physics and chemistry again.
Hello! It was my brother on the phone, and he was telling me about a scholarship examination into MIT for science oriented students. I have been studying for almost a year against my own will, and here I was writing a scholarship examination, where everything I had studied was right in front of me, and when the results were out, I passed, and was awarded the scholarship, my mom came to congratulate me, as I thought to myself, "In truth, a stitch in time, saves nine"
(22nd contest) LOVE ENDURES.
It was the 25th of December in year 2017, and we were all on the beach having a good time, when my mother dragged I and my younger sister to where used to be her private spot with her husband(my dad) before they divorced. It wasn't long before we started playing with the sand from the beach when my hand came in contact with a solid material. Out of curiosity, I brought it up, lo and behold! It was a bottle, with a note in it.
It reads:
" Dear Eunice,
I have loved you all my life, and why would I stop now? You are the mother of my kids, the dawn when I wake, and the twilight of my life.
I will always love you, and I never cheated on you. I know one day you will find this letter, and you would realise I would love you even to my grave.
Love, Ben "
It was my dad's letter to my mom. A message in a Bottle hidden in the sand for sixteen years. When I was through reading it, my mom could not hold back her tears.
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