A LOVE STORY

Girl meets Boy, she is afraid to fall in love because she has been broken hearted many times. 

She feels most of them she meets want her because she is strikingly beautiful so she wants to stay alone for some time. 

Boy convinces her that he is not like any of the others. It takes a while but girl finally succumbs to his persistence and charms.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT DON'T

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (so is Jesus Wept)

  

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. (think about this the next time you want to buy chocolate. Hehehe)

For an aspirin to save your life during a heart attack, you need to chew it.

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BEFORE I BECAME A MUM

Hello all, 

since I haven't managed to squeeze out time from being pulled in all directions by my kids, job and teeny weeny crochet business (which I pray earnestly to be mega big someday. *fingers crossed*), enough to edit some of the mini stories I've written, I decided to post this. I've had it for a while, even though its not finished, I want you guys to have something to read because I see that even on days that I don't post anything (which has been quite a while actually) you lovely people still visit and I have to tell you that it gives me encouragement. 

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT DON'T

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

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 Stories posted on this blog are fiction and a product of the writer's imagination. They do not refer to any person or persons. Similarities to real life characters are purely coincidental.

BLIND DATE

BOY: hello

GIRL: [smiles] hello

BOY: Brenda?

GIRL: [pauses as she takes a seat] “you sound surprised or should I say disappointed?”

Boy: “oh no, I’m just asking to be sure”

GIRL: [narrows eyes] “were you expecting someone different?”

BOY: “different? In what way?

GIRL: [shrugs] “I don’t know, you tell me”

BOY: [smiles] “I wasn’t expecting someone as pretty. I’ve heard some terrible stories

           about blind dates”

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT DON'T

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. * 35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. (not true, I've read, but you can't be too sure)

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

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A GIFT FOR ONE, A GIFT FOR ALL

                     A GIFT FOR ONE, A GIFT FOR ALL. 

                         

In my sleep yesterday I saw,

Ten clochards crawling to my door,

With shrivelled hands, they begged for aliments,

And slobbered fast in mawkish contentment

“A gift for one, a gift for all” they begged,

While sobbing in sorrow for all their dead

Whose quest was the same as one  

To plead then feed anew at dawn

Through my window I peered at the wretched souls

And wished I had enough to fill their empty bowls.

Save from the porridge boiling in my silver pot

I knew I had nothing these lots would ever want

But as quick as they had come, they varnish

And convict my heart for being so churlish

“I worked my palms numb to get that meal” I say

Chiding the good voice that keeps my heart at bay

An awful deed I knew I had done

By hoarding a gift meant for everyone

“A gift for one, a gift for all” I now knew

Would have saved so much with that few

Written by Chinedum Odiaka













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 Stories posted on this blog are fiction and a product of the writer's imagination. They do not refer to any person or persons. Similarities to real life characters are purely coincidental.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT DON'T

Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because most Muppeteers are right-handed, so they operate the head with their favoured hand.)

Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

Light doesn’t necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we’ve ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph.

Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese while you’re eating it, so it’s a good idea to shield it with your hand to stop them jumping into your eyes.

During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the Russians).

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HAUNTING?

Have you ever had the feeling that you were being watched and you turn around and there’s nobody there? 

Have you ever been home alone and you spot something from the corner of your eye and you turn to look and there’ nothing there?

All my life, this had always happened to me, I learnt to live with it but now? It’s gotten worse.

Sometimes I feel a presence behind me, the hairs on my neck rise up and when I turn to look, I see nothing, I see no one.

NAYA (3)

***

The police officers looked at each other, the scene was incomprehensible. 

The bodies looked like they had been attacked by some kind of wild animal and then shoved into the car. There was blood everywhere, all over the windows, the windscreen, the seats, the doors, even on the floor outside the car. There seemed to be limbs missing in one or two of them. They couldn’t really be sure from where they were standing. 

The crowd of onlookers was growing fast, one of the officers picked up his phone, made a call and spoke rapidly into it. What was taking them so long to get there? He had called for a back up team with an ambulance to carry the bodies over 20 minutes ago. He turned his back to the sleek looking car to face a growing crowd of people who had whipped out phones to take pictures.