Tag: The Other Room

For the sake of truth…  I lived like this for weeks. I endured my own memory like a fugitive trapped in a cave with a cobra. But one day my brother’s wife could not stand watching me fade away slowly anymore.   She wheeled me to the centre of my sitting room and left me...

Fighting reality…  From there I could not tell what happened to me afterwards or how I ended up in the emergency room wired to an ECG machine.   I opened my eyes and cat and mouse were sitting on both sides of me. Tolani on the right and Bolu on the left. I first looked...

The paralyzing discovery…  In the morning as I was wheeled to join Bolu in the sitting room. He greeted me and came closer. He lowered his body to whisper to my ear.  “Everything is set. I would remove the recorder tonight.”  I nodded and kept a straight face. There was nothing to be excited...

The mystery gets deeper…  I held the bible up in front of me. “Turn on the light,” I said.  The light came on.   I looked around. Not sure of what I was looking for.  I could not recognize anything inside the room. There was nothing there I had ever seen before. There was a...

We got to work…  “Will you now tell me the whole deal?” Bolu said the instant he walked in to meet me in the sitting room.  “Move me in let’s go into Tolani’s room.”  He turned to my rear and began to push the wheelchair, “Is everything okay?”  “This third room. I need to...

Notes from the start…  Five years after trying so hard to get pregnant, Tolani was five months in. I was a happy man. I was happy to be her house boy. Each day, once I close from work, I am rushing home to look after her. Tolani was a goddess in pregnancy. Once the...

Starting a plot…  How do I even get into that room?  I don’t know where she keeps the key to the room. I decided I would have to study her the next time she goes in there to find out where she keeps the key. After this, I would find how I will be...