Fictions by Ima.

NOVEMBER 15TH 2013       I know that you haven’t heard from me in a while... well its been crazy!           Remember the family I told you I was with at school? That’s the reason.      One day four years ago while I was still with them, I couldn’t go to school cos of my period. It hurt me this time more than I could imagine and so I thought to myself that it was better I didn’t embarrass myself at school. I heard a knock on the door of my room just when I was trying to find a good resting spot on the bed. I opened and saw the husband standing there and I thought I was alone in the house since everyone bade me goodbye a while ago. He just stood there with that same look in his eyes... it was a weird look that often sent shivers down my spine. I occasionally caught him looking at me that way from across the dining table, in the kitchen, while I was doing the laundry and I was never comfortable with it and for some vague reason, ...

JANUARY 2nd 2008     My family’s ritual during the New Year is to go visiting close relatives. This year, we went to one of our relatives’ and it was... weird.     When we got there, we heard someone screaming so my dad knocked the door really hard, cos the screams were coming from inside the house and it seemed that if he didn’t knock really hard, no one would know that we were outside. All their neighbours said nothing when we asked if they knew what was happening. Eventually my uncle opened the door and my dad quizzed him for a while about the screams and all. I was pressed, really pressed so I made a bee line for the bathroom. I forgot to knock and when I opened, she didn’t see me but I saw my aunt washing her face. When I looked closer, she was spewing blood from her mouth. She looked up into the mirror and saw me by the door, she turned around and smiled at me, I was motionless, smileless and scaredful...if the words exist. She motioned on me to come in and...

                    DECEMBER 30TH 2007       Just when I was beginning to get comfortable with the fact that the year is ending, we got word that my cousin was killed in a car accident. She had just left the house to get something from a nearby kiosk when the car skidded of the road and on to her. It’s like the drunk driver planned on hitting her cos she was the only one that was hit by the car. If that was the end to it, I would not have minded but on the day she was hit, the news hadn’t gotten to me yet when I saw her in the bathroom with me when I was taking a shower. She just stood there and said nothing. When I saw her, I got goose pimples all over my body. I asked her how she got it but she just stood there and by the time I blinked, she was gone. When I came out, I asked my siblings if anyone had seen her come in but no one saw her at all. I was beginning to think that I was maybe imagining things when late...