Fire & Ice

Her daughter's life depends on it because the faster she

rds of prayers to God

ot left. Please protect her for me. It would kill m

ecause she was now out of breath, just as she slows d

youths armed with clubs, machettes, and jerry cans of petrol roamed the streets, attacking s

ing again till she got to the major road described by her colleague. Getting t

han ten minutes now and for someone who did not use to ex

array. Burning cars, tires, and whatnot, billowing with black smoke were all over t

tect his business was dragged out on the road screaming

er watching helplessly, running for their lives, or i

dead on the streets. Some burnt and others clubbed or stabbed. She started running aga

a, Abike' so named by her husband, herself, and mother in law and her mind a

nst. It was scary when she saw the horrific scene of what was l

antly either Christians or Igbo and Yoruba origin. she was suspecting it

were on fire, including the block of flats that used to be her home. Seei

didn't need to go further for her to reali

two hands covering her mouth but couldn't stop the ugly scree

body must have saved her...' She kept muttering to herself crazily right in the middle o

nished' she thought as she was dragged and pushed into an uncompleted building on the

they removed their masks, she recognized four of them as boys that lived in the area, she was friends with some o

neighborhood. He was one of the twins she had tutored w

boy from a good home, wha

said in English while pu

y dragging me into an uncompleted building? Being raped and