VALLEY OF SHADOW

osquitoes, it appeared to have covered the stench of stale urine and human perspiration. I had

aytime as I began to hear the distance crowing of the roosters. The next day was Saturday, nothing much hap

could remember. I was sweeping the compound when Uncle Ugwu drove in with his black jeep, I hid myself to wat

out smiling and nodding his head satisfactoril

lled again, we were much in that particular cell, I came to the bar to

office, said I should sleep there, and she locked me inside the office. It was through the

I asked her of her name, she murmured something and shyly disappeared. The cri

, it was early in the morning, the officer came to unlock the door for me to go back to the cell.

for her to be alive without coming to search for me, unless she was not told where I was, e

mmander, he surprisedly visited at night, he was accompanied by a few police officers, he was aski

ander instructed me to be released, just as other few of my inmates. I had signed that I had been released a

s past 10pm. I told her I could stay within the station until the next day, begged her to help me to call my moth

ouse, an isolated area where she told me she stayed alone. It was a room and parlour self contained apartment. Th

I fearfully took my bathe, and was about to sleep in the sitting room when I overheard a vehicle drove in, then a

o?" I asked her. There was a bang, the officer opened the door, pointed to them where I wa