My Turbulent Childhood

She woke up early in the morning left for work as usual, grandmother followed her shouting "Lucy, Lucy! I think you have forgorten something" Lucy turned around and gave her a humble look, saying "sorry Mum i think i forgot" she pulled out of her handback a five shilling coin and gave it to her mother.

Lucy is the first daughter to her mother, she is a proffessional nurse in a provincial hospital in Tanzania, she has four children that is three girls and one boy, where the lastborn girl is from a different man, and the other two girls and the only boy is from one husband, who was her first husband. She is living with her mother as a result from the first troubled marriage, and the father to her last born just dissapeared, his whereabout remaining unknown.

Yusta the mother to Lucy used to take care of the children while Lucy was went to work, she could wake up early prepare breakfast for all wake the kids up, clean them up, and walk them to school, while Lucy goes working.

One afternoon our elder sister rushed from the landlord's house shouting, "there is a call from Dad." We were all puzled as he was not used to calling or even writting mails, as his kind of communication was to wait for his children to visit him physically.

Latter that evening my sister told Mum there was a call from Dad and that he had said he wanted the whole familly to go and visit him soon....to be continued.

Topic: The Turbulent Childhood

Age Range: 16 and above

Genre: True Life Story

Target Audience: Families

Bio: Name: Bridged Faida.

Education: Studied Higher Diploma in Psychological Counseling and Diploma in Business Adminstration.

Hobbies: Reading, travelling & cooking

Home Town: Nairobi, Kenya

Age: 48 years old

I bought my Grandmother a Sumsung Galax for Valentine, parked it well, and lay it on the table near her telling her “Happy Valentines’ day Granny” kissed her on the cheek and walked towards my room, but looking behind me , I saw my brother carrying a bigger well wrapped pack with an opening, to my surprise as my granny heard inside the bigger pack a back and scratch sound, she went ahead to open it quickly, found a small adorable dog in, and what surprised me most, my present was not opened, as she had to spend the rest of the day cuddling the new family member, I felt let down. But anyway the valentine evening was well spend as me and my friends had a video chat with variety of music and each trying out different fashions, as from Amani to Prada, with all sorts of chocolates and champagne.... A night well spend.

Brocken Petals of Love

Early one morning as I walked down the alley to work, I realized I was a bit tense, deep inside my heart I could hear a strong feeling urging me not to go back, I thought to myself ’ let me just go back home, give my wife a kiss and walk back to work. I turned back, reaching near the front door of my house, I heard my wife shouting “Darling I told you I will make it in time, why don’t you trust me; you know that I love you so much, you should learn to trust me always?” and I thought she was talking to me, I rushed towards the front door opened it , and wanted to tell her I was not inside and that I had already gone outside on my way to work, but to my surprise it was not me she was talking to, she was holding a phone talking to someone else, as soon as I opened the door , she turned around and stared at me with her mouth wide open, but I had already sensed something amiss with her for the past one month, her behaviors were already changing.

That same evening I did not go home, instead I went to my friend who stays three doors away from my home, stayed there while talking and drinking, but I had not raised the case to Fred, though as I looked at his face I guessed he had already known what is going on, he politely said “it is Gertrude” I nodded with my eyes looking down; he again gave me a look and said, “oh man, I have been seeing them several times together! Sorry man, I was afraid to tell you, but don’t worry I know how I will help you with this”.

Toward morning i went back home, so as i can change fresh clothes and go to work, though i was still feeling drunk and dizy, i had a long coversation with Fred while drinking all sorts of mixutes, even i could not remember what i drunk. I reached my pockets for the house keys, when i entred in everyone was still a sleep, the living room looked disorganized, looking on the tellephone table, there lay a several half cut pieces of papers, i took some time to look at them one by one, they were like scrabbled with a pen, 'I think my little girl Dama was playing here' i thought, 'but wait a minute' i reache to a paper with my wife's handwriting, containing Fred's phone numbers, i tried to confirm the number by calling it, as it rung, Fred picked quickly up with a chanting, he said lightly "hey dear, i thought you are still sleeping, he was he the whole night" on my end i said nothing, and quitely i placed the phone down, climbed to the bedroom stairs, i looked at her as she was faking sleep, i shouted "it is Fred, Getrude! I know now, all along i have been your fool".

Walking out of my house early in the morning for work, i opened the front door and i felt it was stark could not open, as my front door does open outwards, i pushed it hard and felt something was moving slowly as i pushed, i decided to put more pressure, at last it oppened and i heard something heavy dropping downstairs, i didn't bother though, i closed the door and i went downstairs to get to the parking lot and there i saw a long darkish stinking and "Gosh what the..." i saw a body, guesse what it is my neighbour who died two month ago and i personaly attended his funeral with a few friends and his family members... i was short of words and completly confused, i thought i was dreaming. I decided to call his wife, but her phone was off, i called my friend his phone too was off, i felt like my world is ending, i called the police, the officer i got on the line told to keep on waiting there until he arrives, but i was not able to stand near the stinch, i turned and went back to my house. When the police were on the way they called back for direction, i though 'let me wait for them at the parking lot', i went towards the door and oppened but again, Gosh!! the same again the door refused to open, i pushed hard the heavy object dropped down the stairs again, i though 'is someone doing this to me', i called loud several times "is someone out there?" but the whole building was silent, i went down the stairs, whattt!!! guesse what i saw 'the wife , dead dead her body dropped on top of the husband's body.. i started to shiver realy bad.. i whispered 'this is creepy'. I called again 'is someone out there, i know you are watching me', but no answer all silent, sudenly i heard a heavy metal drumlike object dropping down my neighbor's stairway, i decided to run back in my house and closed the door. After a half an hour, which seemed to me like the whole day, my phone called again it was the police they had arrived... at last i breathed a sense of relieve.

The Naked Stranger.

The man walking down the streets naked, wearing an exclamation mark on his face fumbling and mumbling words, “Where is this place? Am I lost grrrrrr something must have gone wrong with me, am I hallucinating or what. The buildings here are really tall, where am i? I am really feeling hungry I don't know where i can get something to eat, every restaurant on the roadside looks costly.” People passing past him are wondering looking at him from top to bottom and thinking the man has a mental issue according to how he behaves, and he is naked, some pointing fingers from far, but the man does not notice the people’s perceptions, he continues with his loud thoughts, “Hey wait a minutes everyone around here looks clean and fabulous, wow those clothing, look at that one he has a very big trousers like he is about to drop them, i think i have to look for a place to hide in, i don't belong here. Wow someone is walking past me holding their ears with a flat rectangular shaped object, why is he holding his ears, what he is talking to himself; maybe he is seeing the spirits of his ancestors.

I am seeing everywhere is magnificent, is that a train running like a flash wow very fast.” He then hears young boys laughing loud pointing fingers at his private parts, looking at them with shy eyes, he immediately drops down and crotches on the roadside looking down to wait for laughter to disappear.

He later wakes up and kept on walking, on the way he meets a gentleman who decided to stop and asked him with a sigh, “Are you ok man” the man raised his eyebrows looked at him and looked down again, the gentleman decided to request him to follow him to a small clothing store nearby, the naked man accepted, shyly followed the gentleman, approaching the store he wondered as to whether he will be let in, but the gentleman ensured him of his safety as he was looking as if he wanted to retreat from entering the store. When they approached the door steps, the guy on the door asked the gentleman, “was he robed?” the gentleman said, “he doesn’t speak, I can see he only follows instructions.” The naked man at last raised his voice and said, “This is not my home” the doorman asked, “Where are you from, and why are you naked?” the naked man answered “well our homeland never had such tall buildings like the ones I am seeing around, I am just from my hometown and found myself here, even I did not know how I was naked, I am hearing that from you now.” Both the gentleman and the doorman said in unison, “Man this guy is not from this planet, he is strange.” The gentleman asked him would you mind if we give you something to cover yourself?” he responded “No I won’t mind.”

In future people will be buying grams of oxygen air from supermarkets, through my imagination there are a many types of air polutions that exists in the current world, also unplanned deforestation that happens always arround different parts of the world, the need for cleaner air is getting more expensive.