Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

The Rising sphinx

With his itchy and picky fingers to touch the right spots, wandering eyes to illuminate every pore of the hairy brown and spotless skin and lecherous mind to ravish the poor and excited dame who lay on his high density mattress waiting to be devoured, the world can go take a hike in the Himalayas, a certain Asiedu can wear a corset and the economy of Ghana can crumble into shambles and he doesn’t care.

It was their first time and they have both looked forward to a time like this.  A beginning of a time that will transcend time itself; and a lingering memory thereof. Time, so right like the Republicans, mood on point like a nipple and psyche, so hyped and sustained to last as many bouts as they are willing to go. 

If there was anything called love at first sight, theirs would be one of the prototypes. The aura around them, so entrusting that no word has yet been scrutinized nor subjected to an iota of doubt. Suffice it to say, there were no trust issues. Love, so strong and binding like an adhesive, erases all forms of abuse and hardships when one falls in one. All he is preoccupied with is how to make her happy – maybe, just make himself happy.

He inched closer and breathed down her neck, exuding a warmth they will later talk about when this budding hot and sizzling ménage a deux is done and over with. It was time to give this whole tease a closure. A time to please.

With a renewed desire, he traces her lobes with a couple of fingers, down her nape to the region of her turgid and filled breasts. He cups the handful mound into his sizeable hand and slowly tightens his grip until it did not make any more sense just because he could. Just because he had to, so he can be sure it was really happening. He did because he wanted to find out the boundaries of his limitations; how far he could explore on before she asks him to stop or even asks him to intensify his antics and her feelings thereof.

He props up and slips his other hand up her thighs into the silky fabric of the lady and goes straight to her triangle in-between which sends a tingling sensation through her. She further entrusts herself into his bosom for more of his magical touches. Contrary to the awkwardness she thought, she finds herself enjoying the moment, the intense desire, his touches and fact that she feels fulfilled. To hell with those who say life is not good.

For him, it is yet another moment to revise his stance on the womenfolk. Somebody is about to rate women yet again and he is cocksure of his feelings. He was sure it was love at work. He did not even want to think that it was the cloud nine factors. His ego won’t allow him to think in that vein even though the thought brought shame to his face indicating a flash of truth. The bolting rush was so negating that his surety just went limp in an instant, probably in the same manner it arose. 

He went blank and with a sudden uncontrollable contraction of his muscles, he squeezed the breasts tighter which sent a painful spasm through her. She feels her body rip apart, opens her eyes and dies emotionally from the look she saw on his face and fact that his essential limb has suddenly gone limp.
Big deal? 

Yeah! They say it casts a daunting feeling on the psyche of women – gives them an impression of undesirableness but this couldn’t be same. He loves her and she knows that. And whoever says sustaining a hard on for a lady is the only way they can feel loved anyway. He was only fighting his own devils. He was seeing things – reel of images that are so vivid as though he was reliving them. All his escapades playing on a giant screen before his eyes; in his mind, maybe.

He was even engulfed more with the realization that his feelings for her won’t endure. He knew that too well because this is how he felt towards Bomba, Annabel, Stella, Flora, Dzifa and all the other ones before her. For once, he thought his feelings for her were different and real but it was a lie; a façade. 

Would he ever love?

*raps on the door*

The rap was so loud, untimely and intruding that it made him cringe.

Is it death himself at the door?

As much as he would love to act dumb to the raps on the door, he also needed some respite, coupled with the fact that loud music was playing from the room, indicating that someone was inside, so, he quickly wore his boxer shorts which he pulled from the pile of clothes on the bed, musters courage and answers to the unending raps on the door.

“Who dat?” He asked like the boss as he fidgets with the door only to find out it was a man and a woman clutching bags in the hollow of their shoulders.

“Excuse me Sir, do you have some time to talk about Jesus Christ. We are from the Kingdom hall of the Jehovah’s Witness”

 The writer tweets @vilejah

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

The Storyteller

Things have never really been the same again. He went up North and she went down South. According to her, he has lost it. He has lost what she wants; the very thing that energizes her and brings her alive. She doesn't remember when they last had any quality time in a world where everything was quantified.

He was jarred and getting lost in his world; dealing with his devils. He was up against everything, except himself. He hasn't lost the magic that fixates her and hasn't lost the charm befitting a Prince, only, no one had told her that reality is harsh. She has shut her eyes to the occurrences around her and given up on life. However, she clung and became friends with hope; an attribute she needed so badly in that dire moment.

Hope will come around anytime, even uninvited. Hope tells her it was going to be alright. It also tells her to take it easy and hang in there. Lastly, hope assured her that, her man has not lost the magic of loving her the way she wanted, neither has he lost the art of telling her stories. Even though, she didn't believe, she smiled at the insight.

The insight energized her and brought back fond memories, so she reached out for her backpack and stuffed it with a Walkman, a pen and a paper, a couple of assorted fruit bonbons from the dining table  and her phone she had switched off all day. She was headed for their favorite spot at the beach to have a quiet time. For a change, she was going to do what she hasn't done before. She wants her man, and she is going to do everything, maybe, just something to have him.

She is going to try her hands at penning down her feelings in simple terms. She is no award winning writer. She is just a lover who wants things better than they were.

Just before she set out to write a sestet for him, she felt some eyes boring into her. She frantically looked around, but saw nothing, so she began writing.

My bony ebony
If only I could see u 
I would not be this blue
And we might just sail through 
just as wishes will not be horses 
I can never get over your kisses

As soon as she dotted the last sentence, the apparent feeling manifested. He has come looking for her, after calling her phone all day. He hugged her from behind and a combination of fear and a clout of mixed feelings of whether to be indifferent or hug back came to the fore. But before she could actually think, her body, spirit and soul has taken over reasoning, and she hugged back. He then pulled a mail envelope from the back pocket of his branded Akademiks denim Jeans, while the moment was still tensed up and he gently shoved it into her already opened hand.  "Here", and he started to walk away.

She quickly opened the envelope and shakily removed the pad  but it was tightly folded. She unfold,ed the first one and it was blank. Second one, and it was the same. These, coupled with the fact that the distance between them was widening was not amusing, she was becoming apprehensive. The suspense heightened till the fifth, which was coincidentally the last one and this had something scribbled on it.

I haven't lost my story telling abilities to u and I'm still your man. i will forever be your Prince Charming, and I want you to now and always be mine. Call me when you are ready and let's make up. Come see me and let's change the world!

And now, with her lit eyes, she didn't even know if she should just jolly after him or sit back and refine her poem for him.