Fractured souls

. At two months, they were still cute later they will be sold while two fema

Taking a large bucket, I poured the grain in, mixed a few

nd; my shoulders, back and hands fr

ard to get a form like this, but now all I had to do was get fit doing choirs and on top of that get paid. F

man even if he wa

walked back to the hous

en she had four of us two girls and two boys, my oldest sister at the age of

n me by three years six foot two t

, my brother used to come and help but then he didn't like it so he went on to construct houses l

finish four more subjects before lo

od, but I am not s

later... Now though, it is definitely: 'I am

soap and cup, making sure my skin was nice

ather forgot I existed, but I was eighteen, w

se even before that he still forgot about us, leav

house to purchase biscuit and sardines, pick some coconut, limes or lemon from the trees an

water was even more precious than that was clean enoug

len sick, and when we did, father would feed us some concoction

r homes, we used candles or oil lamps. We also had no proper furnitu

or my life is, but the thing is we were not dirt poor. It's just m

o spend, but di

e a dragon guardi

th the soap. I carefully placed it safely high up, wrappi

g grated lime skin and pig fat

nice smell. It was a wonder bees and flies never followed me, but at l

ing and my clothes were always clean dressed I looked at my pristine white shirt and starched green school skirt white socks and shiny black shoes,

all mornin', or I gin

t still hanging out and I partially leaning out the door he sped off scrambling s

but for some strange reaso

he had dark brown skin which was the colour of pecan. His hair was cut low never growing much, bu

d mother say 'seduced her'--his voice was deep but not extremel

grandmother wa

hool. Since I had grown accustomed to his speeding, I w

the things that are of a higher pow

t even count how close to d