Ejike The Betrayal

age of Nkpologu was a

ldren, usually reckless as goats on market day, stayed indoors. And some

gs itched with a nervous energy, and his th

cassava fields, where Ngozi had

ranger: a trail of white feathers, spaced evenly, each stuck

used to belong to Uncle Lazarus, the man who had spoken to ghosts or claime

ked open at E

bwebs hung like tapestries, but something else caught his eye: a small calabash

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me to see. But I do

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