The Bridegroom

This was another difficult story yet again. There was an older man who was being waited on by either a younger man with a woman's name.Then there's alot of talk about the man waiting for his future wife to come and he stares at a picture. Thats all I could gather.

The spiders Web

This man Ngotho was of African decent, but he was not keen on keeping their religion. He started having nightmares telling him something bad was coming so he stayed away from the church. The story gives light into how this man and another where servents. This story takes a turn down the confusing lane because, it wasn't clear whether or not this boy was trying to figure out if he grade school teacher was now the lady he worked for or what. Then all of a sudden the boy attacts Lois, and runs to attack her husband, but I didnt catch what led to this ending of the story.

The Amenesty

A man was sentenced to five years in jail and left his family behind. His girlfriend was the only person that wrote him a letter every week because his parents couldnt read and write. His mother didnt have anything to say to him and his father just said they were always praying for him. The family finally had enough money to go see their son. His fater died soon after and when his sentance was up he got the chance to go home to his mother and his daughter (which he never met since she was a baby during his sentencing) and wife.

The Birds of God

A fisherman, Ernesto Timba, was tired of waitiing and hoping for fish. He looked up to the sky at the birds wishing one would fall into his boat. A bird did fall into his boat one day and he took him home his wife wanted to cook the bird for the family to eat but the fiserman took the bird and put him in a cage and feed him fish. The bird became fat and lonely, the man wished for another bird to keep the first bird company, and a female bird appered in the cage also the two birds had little chicks together. One day the fisherman came home to the birds missing and the cage burned near the fire place, he thinks his wife had something to do with this. He looked up to the heavens and asked god not to be upset with him and not to take this out on mankind. Later Ernest Timba died in the river.

The Perfect Wife

A man named Idrissa had two wifes, he died while at war and left his wifes behind. One of his wifes, Sire, married Idrissa's brother. and the other wife married Astuo married and had a baby.
I really didnt get a good understanding of this story, it was very confusing.

The Barrel Of a Pen

Rachel a young girl who was pregnant. Went with her friends, Sisa and Ntando, and rented a cheap room for fifteen dollars. When the got into the room Ntando preformed a procedure with the barrel of a pen to give Rachel an abortion she told her she should start bleedding in a few hours. Sisa's mother was waiting for them but her mother didn't know what they had been doing. Rachel went with Sisa and her mother back to their house. Rachel went to the bathroom and stayed a while, Sisa went to go cheack on Rachel. Rachel was in the shower with blood everywhere. Sisa told her younger sister to tell mummy to call the hospital. Sisa went and got Rachel more clothes and a sanitary napkin. Mummy knocked on the door to the bathroom and asked what was going on Sisa began explaining and finally told mummy about the abortion and what they had did.

The Home-Coming

A women, who had left her country, finally got the chance to go back to her homeland. Her daughter helped her with her suitcases and the began to walk home. The women started thinking will the village have a big surprise for her when she got there sincce she had been gone for over forty years. She had been to another country and had to learn how to deal with electronics and learned new ways about people. She wondered about her daughter since she was never there to raise her the mother look at her daughter as if she was a stranger. She left the village at the age of seventeen. She birth three childern and visited them a few times but now she was finally home.

Night Thoughts

A person laying in the hosipital bed has thoughts about a king and his kingdom. Sikiti whho was the head of state had haunted to former king of state, Liswani II. Liswani II let the people of the city become free, they were glued to the television since Sikiti limited the city people to telvision and political veiws. The day Liswani II went to live in the palace he was shot and recovered and changed his name to king Liswani, Sikiti haunted him over the years and the king disappered to keep from stepping down from his posistion. he came from hiding and explained to the people that he would expose his enemies and showed the people that it was not Sikiti that was going through the chambers of the palace haunting people and doing things it was Sikitis son, he simpily lived undergound near the rear of the palace. And the people of the city had known this all along Soon after this was reveled the king appointed new people to help him rule the city since he felt like the others had betread him.

Crocodile Tails

A women, meets another women during secondary school, named Gill. Gill was from britain and her and gill talked bout the different ways of teaching from how they grew up. she wanted to go to britian to visit Gill when she left. Eventually she got the chance to fly over to britian to meet Gill in the country she had dreamed of. She was amazed by all the white faces and the nature in britian.

A State Of Outrage

Nana and five of her other friends where known as the significant six during highschool. One of their friends, Vuyokazi, had died from Aids. Nana was really upset with her death and wanted everyone to come together to help fight aids in their neighborhoods.

The power of a plate of rice

Mrs. Cheta Adu worked for Mr. Aziza as a teacher. Mr. Aziza delayed Mrs. Adu's pay til the end of Febuary because she had missed school four days in a row because her son was very ill. Mrs. Adu began to worry about how she would feed her two childern, mother-in-law and also how she would pay the rent. She went to Mr. Aziza's office to beg him to pay her since she was struggling with her bills, feeding her family, and taking care of her sick son. Mr. Aziza refused to pay her until the end of Febuary. She went to his office for the last time she followed him to his home and he let her in and explained to her that no matter how long she stayed he still wont pay her. he went into a room and she proceeded to go into the dining area where there was a mound of jollif rice, she began to feed herself as Mr. Aziza came out of the room. He was shocked that she was eating his food at his table, He asked her to leave and she said not until he paid her, he then became angry and told her to leave she still said no not until he paid her, he then finally said ok he would and gave her a note to give to payroll. She politely left with the note, still chewing the food.

The Betrayal

A loving man and women wanted to bear a child with each other to express their love for one another. The women gave birth to a son, the mother and father wanted to teach their son to love mankind and nature and they sent him out on his own. The son found things to be difficult out on his own. He spent his days growing up and watching his days go by, he felt so alone in the world. He had powerful nightmare's about the things his parents talked to him about and decieded these things had to stop. Once he figured out what his parents were trying to tell him he met a beautiful female and he wanted her badly. He possessed the female by letting her drink out of a glass he gave her. She went unconscious but when she gained conscious she found out she was pregnant. She told him "This child is not mine, He will bring unhappiness." The man wanted to erase what had happened. He placed his hand upon the womens belly and a gigantic flash of lighting which josted the clouds. Smoke, air, and fire killed everyone and the horizon was a big enormous mushroom cloud.

The Museum

The Museum was a different story to read because it seemed that the first character was gonna get his feelings hurt. First off the guy was like this geeky science guy, who didnt no how to socialize very well. Then he meats this girl that he had been crushing on, and finally enters a relationship with her but realizes that the girl is more into controlling him. This guy owns a paper and maxi-pad factory. This story was basically a little boring.

Uncle Bunty

This was the story about the worse possible that ever existed on earth. Totally a man hoe, he basically used women for sex, money, and power. I could only guess that maybe it could have been written by a women who had been emotionally ripped apart by men constantly throught her life. The only good thing about theh story was that it showed warning signs for future women.

The Red Velvet Dress

This story tapped into sadness, and alot of greiveing for the characters. Throughout the first beginning I was very confused as to what was going on in the story, I couldnt locate where the story was going to lead me to. But as I read more it became evident that the father in this story had been sexually abusing Katrina. Then mixed in with that was a vibe that the father was a murderor, every time something major/bad happened somebody ended up dead .The story turned when the gurl killed who she thought was her father for rapeing her and her friend. Then after serving time in jail while Katrina's mother was on a death bead, Katrina found out the man who was rapeing her was not her father. And that the man killed her actual birth father many years ago. So this was left to face with alot after finding all that out then her mother passes, and she realized that her mother had hidd the truth from her for all those years.

The Prophetess

The Prophetess was a different story to read as apposed to all the depressed stories we have been reading. The prophetess gave off a magical /fairy tale feel . It starts off with a son who is naturally supposed to assume responsibility over the household since there is a lack of a father figure detailed in this story. The mother keeps ends meat by working as a nurse. The turning point of the story is when the mother gets sick. The boy finds it his duty to help heal her by going to get some holy water from this women called " The Prophetess" . The Prophetess is supposedly this magical women who has magical water that can heal anything with one drop. The climax is when the boy had to over come fears of knocking on the door, fears of the guard dogs, fears that she would turn him away. Towards the end, the mother states that even medicine can not heal everything to the boy leading you to beleive that the hospitals there are not up to date.