Black Pages Of The Past

Unarguably, the past has an inexplicable way of making or marring the future.

Michael and Chineye are close cousins. Furthermore, they are close friends. But there is a problem: one of them is madly in love with the other.

Pretty soon the stage is set for a display of abominable intimacy as the fruit of pleasure is eaten heatedly in a moment of weakness. Several years down the line, the consequences of an unholy act knocks on the doors of the participants . It is time to pay for the secret sin that was committed on a beautiful night, in a beautiful house, in the beautiful city of Enugu.

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  • Black Pages Of The Past - Episode 1

  • YOU’RE ABOUT to read a vivid account of how the icy fingers of my dark past reached out ominously, grasped my bright future, and almost crushed it. Certainly we liv...
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  • Black Pages Of The Past - Episode 2

  • ON ARRIVING AT the reception area of the principal’s office I learnt he wasn’t on seat; that he had travelled out of town, the day before, to attend to an emergency....
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  • Black Pages Of The Past - Episode 3

  • I BOARDED A bus bound for Onitsha, because I couldn’t get the one headed directly for Enugu. As a matter of fact, back then very few buses journeyed straight from Lagos to En...
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  • Black Pages Of The Past - Episode 4

  • THE NEXT DAY or so Chineye and I were back on the same track. We talked and played games together. She was pretty good at Chess and Ludo. It was as if there had been no four-year ...
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  • Black Pages Of The Past - Episode 5

  • THE FOLLOWING DAY, in the evening, I was standing on the balcony, leaning against its railing, admiring the beautiful scenery before me, when I heard someone approach me from behin...
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  • Black Pages Of The Past - Episode 6

  • I SAT FOR the next JAMB examination, and scored 285. The cut-off mark for Mechanical Engineering, for UNILAG, was 279. I was admitted on merit. During the second semester...
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