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THE END AS IT CAME-FINALE

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 THE END AS IT CAME Rony Brown Episode finale   I built a whole new life from the ground; new house, new identity, and even a new accent. To think that all this happened in the span of five years… Sometimes I look back with regret as I do now but leaving my family behind with no trace was my best and only option. I moved way up north, turned myself into a teacher with my reward being shea butter and tomato from grateful parents. Every day is a routine that rarely changes. But I never kid myself. I have no illusions of safety. Actually every day I only grow the more scared. The news is filled with many murders these days; people mutilated beyond recognition and people killed so as to look like they were victims of one ritual or the other. If only the police could connect the dots. I lift up my eyes and stare listlessly at the board. It is filled with newspaper clippings. Almost fifty gruesome killings have so far been recorded within the short span of three mont

THE PASS-UP FINALE

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  THE PASS-UP Rony Brown FINALE-AS CUNNING AS KWEKU ANANSE This is one folk lore that is not of Siitian origin, much to the Sage’s chagrin. It tells the story of the adventures of Kweku, the cunning spider. Some times during his adventures he was the hero and other times he simply wasn’t. But being hero or no has never stopped Kweku from being cunning and neither will it stop me. It’s been barely a week since I fell in the arms of the most eligible bachelor in this Siitian world. (Well, there’s the fact that I made him qualify as a bachelor in the first place) And of course he did not waste any time in slipping the most brilliant glass slipper on my foot. But according to the sage, I am nearing the threshold for which it is safe for me to be around the King of this Siitian world. I am now getting a grip of what she means. Can you believe that the king, my husband, threw a tantrum because I was doing the number three and could not do the do? (Yes, you should know